Volume 101, Issue 15 Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper Since 1906 February 5, 2007 Solving the $60 billion problem CMU gets low grade Carnegie Mellon research leads to creation of new software company in sustainability study is listed as one of the 26 campus by Sabrina Porter sustainability leaders,” said Barb Junior Staffwriter Kviz, head of Carnegie Mellon’s Green Practices Committee. When the subject is sustain- “The categories that we received ability, Carnegie Mellon does high marks on refl ect how we not quite make the dean’s list. operate and strive to improve The university received a C+ in green practices on campus.” a study conducted by the Sus- The Green Practices Commit- tainable Endowments Institute, tee consists of faculty, staff, and which rated universities based students from all areas of study. on campus sustainability policy The committee is divided into and endowment shareholder subcommittees that meet once practices. a month to discuss current and The study, released January future environmental initiatives 24, graded over 100 colleges and on campus. universities on 26 main factors In addition, both students and from green-building initiatives administrators have undertaken Zhiquan Yeo/Photo Staff Justin Brown/Photo Editor Justin Brown/Photo Editor Justin Brown/Photo Editor to endowment investment poli- a variety of initiatives in order to The engineers of Sure Logic, pictured from left to right: Bill Scherlis, CMU professor of computer science and director of the Institute for Software cies with a letter grade from A to achieve sustainability on cam- Research; Scott Schmidt, CEO; Alex De Marco, Java fi eld engineer; and Ethan Urie, software engineer. [Not pictured: Edwin Chan, senior architect] F. Among the schools surveyed, pus. program in SCS, to develop The Research Research Projects Agency four received an overall grade of Sustainable Engineering, a by Andrew E. Peters software that kills the hardest- (DARPA) in 1986, came back to A, 22 received Bs, 54 Cs, and 20 partnership between Carnegie Personnel Manager to-fi nd bugs in the most critical Sure Logic’s software tools Carnegie Mellon in 1993 to work Ds. Mellon, the University of Texas systems. are based on research regard- on dependability as part of the Carnegie Mellon’s individual at Austin, and Arizona State Uni- Thirteen years after Lycos was Software assurance is a lucra- ing software reliability and as- Fluid Project. report card had three As, a B, a versity, is dedicated to helping created at Carnegie Mellon, a tive fi eld, considering that every surance conducted by Scherlis. “My research is focused on C, and two Fs, clearly indicating faculty members update their brand new spin-off hopes to rev- year bugs in computer software Jonathan Aldrich, Scherlis’ col- how to write software about points both strong and weak. courses to account for rapidly olutionize the budding software cause $60 billion in damages league and fellow professor in which you can make promises,” The As were received in admin- changing conditions in the envi- assurance industry. Sure Logic, a worldwide, according to Bill the School of Computer Science, Scherlis said. “Software is every- istration, climate change and ronment and the economy that software company founded late Scherlis, professor of computer has also made several large con- where, it’s an amazing kind of a energy, and green building; the are transforming the practice of last year, is using research from science and director of Carnegie tributions. construction material if you can B was given for food and recy- engineering. Carnegie Mellon’s Fluid Project, Mellon’s Institute for Software Scherlis, recruited by Allen cling. Meanwhile, a C was given Currently, university data a software assurance research Research. Newell to the Defense Advanced See LOGIC, page A3 for investment priorities and the shows that there are about 600 Fs for endowment transparency students on the Carnegie Mel- and shareholder engagement. lon campus enrolled in environ- The disparity shows a clear di- ment-related classes. Making it official: Mascot debate ensues vide between Carnegie Mellon’s Sustainable Earth is a student endowment policies and campus organization that assists in the efforts. creation and development of on- by Shawn Fakhari “I don’t really see how we campus initiatives. Currently, Staffwriter could be given such a low score,” it is leading Recyclemania, a said H&SS fi rst-year JoAnna campus-wide program to step up To the audience at the mascot Hartzmark, “since I feel like our recycling efforts. According to a town hall meeting held in McCo- campus has always been so dedi- Carnegie Mellon study last year, nomy Auditorium last Monday, cated to green initiatives.” 40 percent of our garbage could one thing was certain — Carnegie Although Carnegie Mellon’s have been recycled, yet was not. Mellon needs an offi cial mascot. overall grade was a C+, its high “I feel like I’ve never really The meeting was hosted by the marks in campus sustainability noticed all the things we do for Mascot Task Force, a group of policy placed it among the few the environment,” said CFA fi rst- students and staff members who schools to receive an average of year Alyssa Fogel. “We are all so plan to propose an offi cial mas- an A– or better in that category. busy that sometimes we forget.” cot and mascot graphic for the “I think that we should be university. Specifi cally, the group very proud that Carnegie Mellon See GREEN, page A3 was soliciting opinions to decide whether to legitimize the univer- sity’s current, unoffi cial mascot, The Sustainability Grading Curve* the Scottie dog, or to create a new mascot altogether. Suggestions schools that received included a highlander, a lumber- an overall grade jack, “the Tartan Tigahs,” “the Carnegie Mellon Crocs,” “Terry of A ** the Tartan,” and, paying homage 4% to Carnegie Mellon’s founders, “Andy.” A Another proposal suggests hav- 20% ing one offi cial mascot as well as 22% several other icons that would be D representative of the community, such as a highlander or a bag- B pipe. Nathan Frank, a fi rst-year eco- nomics major and member of the task force, began the meeting with a PowerPoint presentation outlining the group’s goals. The 54% group clarifi ed that it was not planning to change the name C “Tartans,” but to establish a vi- sual representation of an offi cial mascot. In addition, the group answered questions via the Pow- erPoint ranging from the basic “What could the Carnegie Mel- lon mascot be?” to the weightier “Are gender, race, and Scottish Highest overall scores tradition important?” and “What would a costume and design rep- Harvard University resent?” Dartmouth College “All other icons adopted by the school have been by students,” Stanford University said Jennifer Church, dean of Williams College Student Affairs. The group stressed the impor- Lowest overall scores tance of student involvement during the town hall meeting. Trinity University (TX) The meeting’s leaders asked the Yeshiva University audience to rate aspects they would deem suitable for an offi - University of Tulsa cial mascot; for instance, “fi erce Princeton Theological Seminary vs. not so fi erce” and “realistic vs. cartoon/caricature,” in an at- tempt to gauge the kind of visual * Based on a sample of 100 leading colleges and universities representation that would meet chosen by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. students’ approval. ** Grades reflect the overall cumulative sustainability score Several students weighed in given based on an evaluation of campus greening practices and endowment policies. Jenn Kennedy/Art Staff See MASCOT, page A3 Joseph Wang/Art Staff

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TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Hi: 15 Hi: 20 Hi: 26 Hi: 29 Hi: 26 One mascot for Lo: 8 Lo: 13 Lo: 18 Lo: 18 Lo: 11 Page one student body Crime Incident2 Shawn Wertz & My grandparents, like so many other Theft at 9:44 p.m. Carnegie Mellon parents and grandpar- January 28, 2007 ents, have the telltale sticker affixed to at 7:53 p.m. Police received a report of their back window that says “Carnegie marijuana use by students Mellon.” Theirs, in particular, also has A cell phone and wallet were in Donner House. The actors the image of a Scottie dog next to the stolen from a student’s apart- could not be identified. The name of the university. ment in Fairfax. The student case is still under investigation The terrier’s image has become popu- had left the door unlocked and by University Police. lar in other aspects of my home life. fallen asleep when the items My grandmother purchased a statue Fire Alarm were stolen. The items have of a Scottie dog shortly after my ac- not been recovered. January 30, 2007 ceptance. It greets visitors at the front at 10:54 a.m. door during all four seasons. And while Noise Complaint she is still unaware that the dog isn’t January 29, 2007 Police reported a water main an official mascot of the university, its at 3:12 a.m. break in the mechanical room symbolism is still as powerful as ever. on the lower level of Doherty For my family, it’s a reminder that I’m Police received a noise Hall. The building’s sprinkler at school striving for bigger and better complaint regarding students system was activated, setting things. It’s a symbol of the pride my off the alarm. The water main in Donner House. The caller family has in me, and the pride I have was repaired and the alarm reported that the students had in my school. stacked pizza boxes in front was reset. Despite appearances, the Scottie dog of a door and were repeat- is not an official mascot, a fact brought edly knocking on the door. Theft Justin Brown/Photo Editor to the forefront of campus attention University Police arrived on January 30, 2007 with the recent meetings of the Mascot the scene but could not iden- at 9:24 p.m. Musicians entertain at Black Caucus Reception Task Force to discuss the possibility tify the actors. A student had her wallet sto- of selecting an “official” mascot. As of A combo of jazz performance minors performed during the fourth-annual Black Caucus Reception, now, we’re known as the Tartans, which Theft len from Hunt Library while held Friday 4–6 p.m. in Rangos Hall. The event served as an opportunity for students to meet and leads me to assume that our only actual January 29, 2007 studying on the third floor. network with other students, faculty, staff, alumni, and Pittsburgh community leaders. The event “mascot” now is a piece of tartan plaid. at 8:47 a.m. The wallet was in a side pocket kicked off Black History Month. of her backpack. The backpack We Carnegie Mellon students seem to A car boot was removed was with her at all times. The be at a juncture when it comes to choos- from a car in the Morewood student went to purchase food ing an official mascot. The task could Gardens parking lot. The actor from the Maggie Murph Café prove more complicated than originally put the boot in his car and when she noticed that the wal- thought. While I have my own feelings drove away with it. The boot let was missing. about what a mascot should represent has since been recovered. StatisticallySpeaking to me, each student has his or her own Fire Alarm preferences, because everyone has a Fire Alarm January 30, 2007 While Carnegie Mellon has yet to declare an offi cial mascot, the different experience. A mascot is supposed to unite the January 29, 2007 at 11:32 p.m. Scottie dog has a long history of cheering on the Tartans. Here are at 10:15 a.m. entire campus during large gatherings, The fire alarm was activat- some numbers that explain how things came to be the way they are times when we can put the books down The fire alarm was activated ed at the Beta Theta Pi house today: for a few seconds and cheer for our in Delta Upsilon. A student set on the fraternity quad. The peers. off the alarm while cooking Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire And with the recent meetings of the and hadn’t started the vent. was dispatched and reported First documented use of Scottie dog image on the Mascot Task Force last Monday and Police reported no smoke, no no smoke and no fire. It is Wednesday to discuss the possibility of fire, and no damage. unknown how the alarm was Carnegie Mellon campus: 1940 finally choosing an “official” mascot, activated. The alarm was having a singular, unifying mascot may Suspicious Activity reset. First time a student donned the Scottie dog costume: 1957 be closer now than ever before. January 29, 2007 Compiled by While some of the mascot possibilities Claire Morgenstern seem absurd to me, I have close friends First commissioned use of Carnegie Mellon tartan who would love to be known as the plaid: 1967 Carnegie Mellon Loch Ness Monsters Corrections or the “Tartan Tigahs.” Though I’ve made it obvious what my tastes are with Clarifi& cations Number of colleges and universities with the most regard to Carnegie Mellon’s mascot, I feel that regardless of which mascot is If you would like to submit The actress in the Alcina common mascot, the eagle: 74 actually chosen, it’s important that the a correction or clarification,ion, photo on the right-hanright-hand side mascot be the most representative of please e-mail The Tartan of the page in lastl week’s Carnegie Mellon’s campus as a whole. at [email protected] or Pillboxillbox issue wasw incorrectlyincorr Number of other colleges and universities with a But that is easier said than done. [email protected] with idenidentifiedntified asa EveE MMiedel, Scottish terrier as a mascot: 1 If there is one thing I have learned your inquiry, as well as whoop playedplayyedd Morgana.Morgana The (Agnes Scott from my time here, it’s that Carnegie the date of the issue and acactreactressesss wasw s aactuactuallyally Chris- Mellon is extremely diverse. It is hard the name of the article. We tinetin LLyons,ons,, wwho pplayed College) to imagine that any one mascot could will print the correctionction AlcAlcina.lcina. accurately portray the variety of indi- or clarification in thee next viduals on campus. print issue and publish it Sources: Carnegie Mellon Mascot Task Force, www.agnesscott.edu, The editorial board experienced online. www.smargon.net/nicknames, www.usatoday.com/sports, www. Compiled by scottishtartans.org/facts Shawn Fakhari these diverse preferences firsthand, as we struggled to write an editorial that would represent all the members of the Tartan. We had a rather difficult time cementing any particular viewpoint, and even the one we did manage to share was not unanimous. And if you Biologist and fi lmmaker to lecture this week read the editorial, you will see that one Myers, founder and CEO of and the Distinguished Lecture When: Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. When: Tuesday at noon of us wishes our mascot was the Loch by Elisabeth Madden Environmental Health Services Series in Environmental Where: McConomy Where: Posvar Hall 4217, Ness Monster. Junior Staffwriter and author of Our Stolen Future, Science. Auditorium University of Pittsburgh Perhaps the only issue I have with will speak about new research When: Today at 5:00 p.m. selecting an “official” mascot is that we Lectures will run the gamut concerning environmental fac- Where: Adamson Wing, BH Title: “A Recipe for Title: “The History of Black lose a tiny piece of Carnegie Mellon- this week as Carnegie Mellon tors that may be the cause of 136A Destroying a Civilization: Entrepreneurship” hood that made us different from the and the University of Pittsburgh certain genetic diseases, with How On-Screen Masculinity The Basics: James E. other universities. We were just plaid. welcome guest lecturers in sci- emphasis on fetal origins of Title: School of Art Lecture Reshaped the Stalinist Social Clingman will share his And that is why, even against my ence, history, and the arts. Dr. adult disease and transgenera- Series: Sadie Benning Order” perspective on the history of personal preferences, I realize that per- John Myers will speak about tional impacts on disease. He The Basics: The School of Art The Basics: Marko Dumancic African-Americans’ participa- haps being the Tartan plaid is a perfect endocrine disruption research will also explain the potential presents Sadie Benning, who will share his assessment of tion in the U.S. business world. fit. With all of its colors, tartan plaid this afternoon. Tuesday brings effects of the research on cur- will discuss her work as a film- on-screen masculinity in the Clingman is one of the foremost already represents the diverse mixture filmmaker Sadie Benning as rent exposure standards, which maker. Benning’s videos have post-Stalin period in the Soviet promoters of economic freedom of people on campus. Without that well as Soviet historian Marko he believes are too weak to pro- been exhibited in museums Union. He is completing a dis- for African-Americans, having mixture, without our own unique, plaid- Dumancic. On Thursday, James tect public health. around the country, including sertation titled “Thawing Soviet written five books and a nation- like human network, it just wouldn’t be E. Clingman will share his The lecture is the first in an the Museum of Modern Art and Masculinity: The Contested ally syndicated newspaper the same. knowledge of African-American environmental lecture series the Walker Arts Center. A film- Masculine Archetype in Soviet column on the topic. Here’s to Carnegie Mellon being for- entrepreneurship. titled “Endocrine Disruption: maker since age 15, Benning Mass Culture, 1956–1968” at The lecture will be presented ever plaid. Extending Rachel Carson’s is also a photographer and a the University of North Carolina by the Tepper Black Business Title: “A Revolution In Legacy,” in which noted experts co-founder of music group Le at Chapel Hill. Association. Shawn Wertz, publisher of The Tartan, When: Environmental Health Sciences: will speak about endocrine dis- Tigre. Her first full-scale muse- The lecture is sponsored by Thursday at 5:30 p.m. welcomes all responsible questions Where: New Opportunities to Prevent ruption and its causes. um exhibition is currently on the University of Pittsburgh’s Rachel Mellon and comments, which may be sent to Genetic Diseases” The lecture is sponsored by display at the Wexner Center Center for Russian and East Walton Auditorium, Tepper [email protected]. The Basics: Dr. John Peterson the University Lecture Series for Arts. European Studies. School of Business

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Also: Also: Also: Also: Improved DNA detection method American apathy Track competes at West Virginia Deep Sea IMAX How Things Work: Telescopes Remembering Molly Ivins Athlete Profi le: Leah Feola Galactic concert review THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 A3 Company to release new software Campus News in Brief LOGIC, from A1 the venture capital fi rm Saturn Carnegie Mellon graduate Ethan Capital. In addition, Carnegie Urie was willing to take. Shabbat 1000 think of [it] as something that Mellon has an equity stake in “It’s a very small company at you build stuff out of — it’s like Sure Logic. the moment, so you wear a lot The smell of traditional Jewish foods will universities that have brought the Shabbat 1000 steel, bricks.” Sure Logic was founded in of hats,” Urie said, “but it’s nice fi ll Carnegie Mellon’s Wiegand Gymnasium in tradition to their own campuses. According to Scherlis, depend- September 2006 under the lead- having such an impact on the the University Center on Friday as students, “This unique campus event offers students ability is key in many different ership of CEO Steve Schmitt, company vision and where we’re faculty, and other members of the Pittsburgh an opportunity to meet and connect with oth- fi elds. Software programs keep a 1996 graduate of the Heinz going.” community gather for Shabbat 1000, an annual ers and to share in the traditional celebration pacemakers working correctly, School in public policy and in- campus event held to celebrate the traditional of Shabbat — something special beyond their fl y planes, drive cars, operate formation technology. The Products Jewish day of rest. The program will provide a weekly routine,” Weinstein said. “The actual rockets, govern banking sys- Before coming to Sure Logic, fi lling three-course meal for, organizers hope, event is very inspiring to see so many students tems, and have countless other Schmitt was the CIO of Pitts- Sure Logic’s tools analyze 1000 participants. Attendees will be served celebrating Shabbat and eating a delicious meal responsibilities. burgh and the CEO of FORE only Java code, but the company traditional Shabbat foods such as gefi lte fi sh, a all together.” Even the average cell phone, Systems, a successful Carnegie plans to expand its software to variety of kugels, challah rolls, salads, desserts, Pittsburgh’s Shabbat 1000 is coordinated by an essential communication Mellon telecommunications include C, C++, and C# analysis and several vegetarian options. Chabad House on Campus and the Hillel Jew- tool to many, contains three to spin-off sold to Marconi. tools. “The atmosphere will be one of celebration, ish University Center of Pittsburgh. This year’s fi ve million lines of code. In all Schmitt is particularly en- According to Urie, Sure Logic’s joy, and unity,” said Chani Weinstein, Pitts- event is dedicated to the memory of the late of this, there is enormous room thusiastic about the software tools fi nd the most deeply- burgh’s Shabbat 1000 administrator. Several mayor of Pittsburgh, Bob O’Connor. for error. assurance industry’s potential entrenched bugs that aren’t student groups from Carnegie Mellon, includ- Dinner is free and open to everyone, Jewish “The rate of errors per thou- effect on southwestern Pennsyl- detected by testing and inspec- ing Alpha Epsilon Pi, Zeta Beta Tau, Israel on and non-Jewish alike. sand lines of code is a rough vania’s economic development. tion. Instead of just eyeballing Campus, and Tartans for Israel, have joined Today is the last day for students to sign up on measure,” Scherlis said. “The “This is not about the com- thousands of lines of code and other groups in the Pittsburgh area to help in the event’s website, www.shabbat1000.net. Par- problem is that it takes just one pany or the technology,” Schmitt executing it in a number of dif- the planning, promotion, and implementation ticipants can either sign up to host a table of 10 little error to really do you in.” said. “I believe strongly that ferent situations, Sure Logic of the event. people, or sign up as an individual to be placed Unreliable software has been the research that’s being done works by directly analyzing the Shabbat 1000 is a national event started 12 at a table of 10 by the event’s organizers. responsible for NASA’s two failed at CMU in the area of software code. years ago by Rivka Slonim, co-director of the Shabbat 1000 will take place Friday, Febru- Mars missions and the Northeast assurance can really create an “We analyze the software in Chabad House at the State University of New ary 9 at 5 p.m. in the Wiegand Gymnasium. blackout of summer 2003. industry here in southwestern a non-running state. We look at York at Binghamton. Cornell University, Har- Scherlis blames some of the Pennsylvania.” code as-is,” Urie said. “That al- vard University, Pennsylvania State University, Compiled by problems in important soft- Schmitt hopes that the team’s lows us to fi nd fl aws that are very and the University of Texas are just a few of the Veronica Milliner ware programs on the tension research will put Pittsburgh on diffi cult to fi nd using traditional between computer scientists’ the map in the new but thriving static analysis.” ambition and the level of tech- industry of software assurance. Chan agreed that the dif- nological ability that currently “The work that’s being done ference between Sure Logic’s University to choose official mascot exists worldwide. at the Institute for Software Re- product and those of other com- “As we got more ambitious search has the ability to create panies is signifi cant. MASCOT, from A1 “The old Scottie dog clip art has egie Mellon’s athletic director. about what we wanted to do with an international presence for “Most other companies take been grandfathered in,” said Jay Since 2005, there have been software, our ambition exceeds software assurance,” Schmitt your code, put it in a black box, on the issues. Frank defi ned a Marano, the university’s licens- several changes in Carnegie Mel- our ability to produce reliably, said. and turn the crank,” Chan said. mascot as something collegiate, ing coordinator and a member of lon’s Athletics Department that and so there’s this tension of A “brain drain,” or exodus of He explained that Sure Logic’s respectable, and representa- the task force. have brought the issue of an offi - goals and means,” Scherlis said. qualifi ed graduates, is a big fear tools require programmers to tive of athletics and academics. The task force held its fi rst cial mascot to light, according to Scherlis and his team took in southwestern Pennsylvania, be much more involved in the Colin Sternhell, a junior econom- meeting last semester and has the task force. First, Bassett was their completed research to sev- but Schmitt is proud of the fact process of analysis and policy ics major, described a mascot as held four or fi ve meetings to date. named athletics director and has eral companies. Among them that nine of the 10 people hired implementation. good, fun, en- been working to- was Lockheed Martin, which at Sure Logic hold degrees from “If you have a policy, [our thusiastic, and ward increased was extremely enthusiastic Carnegie Mellon, eight of whom product] helps you write code supportive of its athletic recogni- about Carnegie Mellon’s soft- have either a master’s degree or that is consistent with that pol- teams. Andrea Since 2005, several changes in tion. In addition, ware assurance tools. a Ph.D. from the university. icy,” Chan said. Hamilton, stu- student athletes The demand and enthusi- However, despite the compa- The list of companies that dent body vice CMU athletics have brought the have been push- asm for the Fluid team’s tools ny’s prominent position in the want Sure Logic’s technology president and ing for an icon established that it was time for industry, Sure Logic still has to reads like a who’s who of the For- a senior in art issue of an offi cial mascot to light. that could rep- the researchers to market their compete for top computer sci- tune 500, including IBM, ebay, and ethics, his- resent Carnegie technologies as commercial ence grads with technology Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. tory, and public Mellon athletics, products. giant Google, according to Ed- Those who have had the chance policy, wanted a mascot that Over the course of the year, the and the administration is open to win Chan, Sure Logic’s senior to use the technology are enthu- would attract fans and as well as group has discussed the back- supporting a formal proposal. The Company architect. siastic about its potential. younger children. ground and history of mascots, The task force will continue In addition, because the com- “I can’t think of any of our Java What members of the audience the history of Carnegie Mellon to hold meetings throughout In 2006, Sure Logic received pany is only a start-up, a job at code I wouldn’t want to run this didn’t know was that the Scottish icons, and the steps necessary the year to involve students, ad- investments from Innovation Sure Logic poses a signifi cantly tool on,” said Andrew Winkler, terrier or Scottie dog that is seen to propose an offi cial mascot ministrators, faculty, and staff Works, the state of Pennsyl- higher risk than an entry-level senior architect at Lockheed on apparel in the Carnegie Mel- that would best represent the in various capacities to create a vania’s seed fund group that position at Google. Martin, at the International lon bookstore is a clip art design interests of the Carnegie Mellon mascot that would best represent fosters economic development in However, it’s a risk that Sure Conference on Software Mainte- that is not licensed and does not community. The task force has the campus community. southwestern Pennsylvania, and Logic software engineer and nance held in September 2006. represent an offi cial icon of Carn- also sought the views of alumni. The task force welcomes all egie Mellon, such as the offi cial The task force is co-chaired by suggestions and can be reached wordmark or offi cial seal. Church and Susan Bassett, Carn- via e-mail at carnegie-mascot@.

Justin Brown/Photo Editor Sure Logic’s new product will help companies create high-dependability software programs by analyzing each line of a program’s coding. The company’s offi ce is pictured above. Campus green practices need work GREEN, from A1 building sustainability in fi ve shareholder practices with re- areas — sustainable sites, water spect to the environment lag far “To get one student to recycle effi ciency, energy and atmo- behind. a soda bottle instead of throw- sphere, materials and resources, The study showed a clear trend ing it away is a triumph in itself,” and indoor environmental qual- between a school’s endowment said Emmeline Altschul, presi- ity. The certifi cations come in policies and its overall ranking dent of Sustainable Earth and four levels — certifi ed, silver, on the survey’s list. a senior chemistry major. “The gold, and platinum. Currently, The study estimated Carnegie university itself is more sustain- Carnegie Mellon requires a mini- Mellon’s endowment to be $940 able than its students.” mum level of silver. million as of the 2005-2006 aca- Dining Services has made an Finding alternative sources demic year. The four colleges effort to include healthier and of energy has been a consistent and universities that received more organic food on its menus. undertaking for students and the highest overall grades in the Additionally, it is trying to inte- researchers at the university. study — Harvard University, grate more local foods from both According to university data, Dartmouth University, Stanford suppliers and producers in the approximately 15 percent of the University, and Williams College vicinity. university’s energy is produced — boast endowments that far ex- For the past several years, by alternative electrical energy. ceed Carnegie Mellon’s, ranging green building initiatives have That fi gure is expected to rise from $1.5 billion at Williams to been prominent among the uni- to 20 percent by the end of this $28.9 billion at Harvard. Due to versity’s initiatives. year. Currently, university Presi- their large endowments, these Campus offi cials have intro- dent Jared Cohon is considering schools have more money to put duced solar panels in campus a petition brought to him by toward sustainability without buildings on Craig Street, and a campus environmental organi- skimping in other areas. Right green roof fi lled with vegetation zations like Sustainable Earth now, Carnegie Mellon simply on Hamerschlag Hall. The Intel- that would require 51 percent of does not have the funds to com- ligent Workplace, located on top the university’s energy be pro- pete with these institutions. of Margaret Morrison Carnegie duced by alternative sources by “It seems as if alumni simply Hall, serves as a laboratory used next year. do not donate here like they do to research environmental sus- Carnegie Mellon is a founding at other schools,” Altschul said. tainability. Green Power Partner and recipi- “Maybe the obligation just isn’t All new buildings on campus ent of the Clean Cities Award. there for them.” are now required to have LEED The university also received the The reason for the lack of (Leadership in Energy and Envi- Green Power Leadership Award alumni donations and a smaller ronmental Design) certifi cation. in 2001 for securing what was endowment overall is unclear. New House was the fi rst building the largest single retail purchase However, despite green intia- to be LEED-certifi ed, starting the of wind energy in the nation. tives, since Carnegie Mellon’s trend in 2001, and the upcoming However, although Carnegie endowment is so much smaller Gates Building will face the same Mellon remains at the forefront than other schools, the univer- requirements. of sustainability efforts on cam- sity may not move up in the sus- A LEED certifi cation measures pus, the university’s endowment tainability rankings soon. Science& Technology A4 THE TARTAN February 5, 2007 Carnegie Mellon theorist creates test for string theory SciTechBriefs change our perceptions of the universe. and then what you can do is see what the curate representation of the world at their by Jun Xian Leong The paper, titled “Falsifying Models of consequences are of these assumptions,” respective scales. Nanomachines on Junior Staffwriter New Physics via WW Scattering” and pub- Rothstein said. Gravitational laws, for instance, dictate lished in Physical Review Letters on January The greatest quandary in physics today that an orbiting mass must continually the horizon String theory has long been a subject of 22, was co-authored by Jacques Distler is how different the laws of physics are lose energy and eventually spiral into the heated debate in particle physics because from the University of Texas at Austin, between massive and subatomic scales. center of orbit. Electrons orbiting around of its mostly unconfi rmable predictions, Benjamin Grinstein from the University of General relativity, which describes the in- the nucleus, however, have a quantifi ed Researchers at the University which lead many experts to question its California, San Diego, and Rafael A. Porto teractions of large masses and gravity, has minimum orbital that appears to violate of Edinburgh have developed legitimacy. Now, in a controversial paper and Ira Rothstein, a graduate student and long been at odds with quantum mechan- all laws of energy conservation. a tiny motor that may revolu- jointly published by researchers through- physics professor at Carnegie Mellon, re- ics, which describes physical interactions String theory is the most successful of tionize microscopic machines. out the United States, scientists claim to spectively. at the atomic and subatomic level. The the- various quantum fi eld theories that have Such a device is dubbed a have developed a test that may falsify the “Every theory like string theory is based ories differ wildly in their interpretation nanomachine, which is a ma- postulates of string theory and thereby on certain mathematical assumptions, of reality, yet each of them is the most ac- See THEORY, page A5 chine composed only of single- molecule parts. Nanomachines are typically mechanical switches or de- tectors between one and fi ve Scientists improve DNA nanometers across. Natural pro- cesses, such as photosynthesis detection with nanotags and muscle contraction, utilize the nanomachine concept. number of other universities. The The newly created nanoma- by David Cassel MBIC has a history of research- chines trap particles in motion Junior Staffwriter ing and developing fl uorescent and are powered only by light. detection methods by combin- The researchers have already Researchers in the chem- ing fl uorescent probes, or areas demonstrated their nanoma- istry department, alongside of cells that produce color, with chine, which is based upon the colleagures in the Molecular and computerized microscopy. concept of organic processes, by Biosensor and Imaging Center Armitage’s recent paper out- moving a drop of water uphill (MBIC), have just made the pro- lines a method for improving the via molecular force. cess of viewing and identifying process of fl uorescent dyeing, CNN DNA much easier. which consists of binding fl uo- Source: MBIC conducted research to rescent dye molecules to DNA. improve the process by which Color and concentration varia- Palm oil may harm scientists identify and distin- tions allow for further levels of guish different strands of DNA. strand distinction. environment Associate professor of chem- According to Alan Waggoner istry Bruce Armitage, alongside of MBIC, “The idea is to hook Palm oil was touted as the colleagues from MBIC, recently very bright fl uorescent tags to fuel of the future by political published an online paper enti- things like DNA and proteins so Jim Kubicek/Photo Staff and environmental groups just tled “Fluorescent DNA Nanotags: that they can detect it.” Scientists Backyard Invasion at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History features paintings and digital prints of plants. a couple of years ago. After re- Supramolecular Fluorescent La- have used fl uorescent detection cent scientifi c studies at palm bels Based on Intercalating Dye methods in the past to uncover plantations in Southeast Asia, Arrays Assembled on Nanostruc- the human genome sequence, however, environmental prob- tured DNA Templates” in the monitor AIDS, and diagnose can- New exhibit focuses on invasive plants lems with the palm oil initiative Journal of the American Chemi- cer. began surfacing. cal Society. A Carnegie Mellon press re- display — both informative and rounding ecosystem. Due to an increased demand The MBIC, recently named the lease published on January 26 by Sarah Mogin elegant — is a combination of The invasive plants are likely for palm oil in Europe, many National Center for Networks stated that this new nanotag- Pillbox Editor drawings, paintings, etchings, to encroach upon regions previ- Southeast Asian rainforests have and Pathways by the National ging technique is an innovative and giclées (digital prints). ously occupied by native plants, been cleared, and many farmers Institutes of Health, is a center advancement in detecting rare It’s hard to imagine life in North The illustrators obtained much many of which are rare, if not at over-fertilize their harvests. In utilized by both Carnegie Mel- cancers within biopsy tissue sam- America without the infl uences of their information from the risk for extinction. By the year addition, many palm planta- lon and University of Pittsburgh of Europe and Asia. The Beatles, extensive library of records on 2000, an estimated fi ve percent tions are established on cleared researchers, in addition to a See DNA, page A5 lasagna, lo mein — there’s a lot to Pennsylvania plants. “If a plant of plants native to Pennsylvania peatland, which released enor- be grateful for. is misfi led, it might be lost for a had been depleted. That same mous amounts of carbon into But Europe and Asia have also hundred years,” explained Bon- year, about one-fourth of those the atmosphere. brought thousands of species of nie Isaac, collection manager for remaining were categorized as To clean up the situation, the invasive plants to North Amer- the museum’s herbarium. endangered. Netherlands is leading an explo- ica. Some European and Asian Non-native plants — also known Invasive plants fl ourish where ration into the environmental plants were brought to North as “exotic” plants — can be clas- other plants are likely to dwindle: effi cacy and soundness of vari- America for aesthetic or medici- sifi ed as “invasive” when they on bare soil or disturbed ground. ous biofuels for future research nal purposes, while others made exhibit rapid and aggressive Exotic plants are known to thrive and commercial use. it to the country after their seeds growth. According to the Penn- off the nitrogen in chemical fer- clung to the clothes and suitcases sylvania Landscape and Nursery tilizer, so it is recommended that Source: The New York Times of travelers. While these plants Association, Pennsylvania has people fertilize their gardens are often beautiful and easy to approximately 3400 species of with organic substances, such as maintain, they are also the most plants, 1300 of which are exotic. compost and mulch. Flies without sense likely to pose major threats to the Though some invasive plants One example of an attractive ecosystem. are native to North America, the — yet harmful — invasive plant of smell live longer Backyard Invasion, a new ex- vast majority come from other is purple loosestrife (Lythrum hibit at the Carnegie Museum continents, primarily Europe salicaria). “[The loosestrife] is Maintaining a reasonable diet of Natural History, features and Asia. When they take over starting to grow and take over has always been a way to in- images of invasive and endan- a garden, park, or planting area, crease health and lifetime. Now, David Kjos/Art Editor gered Pennsylvania plants. The invasive plants endanger the sur- See PLANTS, page A5 recent studies reveal that fl ies may actually live longer if they do not smell their food. Flies use their sense of smell and food consumption levels How Things Work: Telescopes to determine how nutritionally rich their environment is, and Michael M. Whiston into spectrums of color. Scientists study they then distribute their energy these spectra to learn about the chemical resources accordingly. Thus, if Sometimes, the most distant objects composition and temperature of distant smelling of food is inhibited, the are the most interesting to study. Tele- objects. fl y detects an artifi cial defi ciency scopes allow scientists to discover and Scientists also use infrared devices of nutrients and would direct analyze star clusters, planets, and galax- to detect objects that do not emit vis- more energy to vital functions ies beyond what the naked eye can see. ible light, such as objects that are very and reproduction. This process, A telescope magnifi es an image by cold or hidden by dust clouds. Different in turn, results in a longer lifes- collecting incoming light and bringing telescopes detect different frequencies pan. it into focus using a mirror or lens. The of electromagnetic radiation. A radio To test this theory, scientists telescope’s eyepiece then spreads this telescope, for instance, detects radio sig- gave two groups of fl ies, one light across the viewer’s retina, thus en- nals. with functioning smell recep- larging the image. The Arecibo radio telescope, which tors and one with blocked smell There are two types of telescopes: is part of the National Astronomy and receptors, the same diet. They refractor telescopes and refl ector tele- Ionosphere Center Arecibo Observatory found that the latter group lived scopes. Refractor telescopes use a lens to in Puerto Rico, is equipped with a radio 40 to 50 percent longer than bring light into focus, and refl ector tele- mirror 1000 feet in diameter and 167 their normal counterparts. scopes use mirrors. feet deep. This giant dish, coupled with Refl ector telescopes are powerful a series of antennas and radio receivers, Source: Nature enough to magnify deep-sky objects enables the telescope to detect weak ra- such as galaxies and nebulae. Refractor dio signals emitted by galaxies millions telescopes, on the other hand, can only of years ago. Hubble telescope be used to study stars and planets. The Arecibo observatory is also home loses use of camera Some of the world’s larger telescopes to a number of different research proj- are equipped with computerized instru- ects, including atmospheric science and According to NASA, the ments that enhance the viewer’s ability Courtesy of www.arm.ac.uk/SALT/ radar astronomy. Hubble Space Telescope’s main to analyze the structure of space ob- In fact, researchers recently used the The South African Large Telescope will be used to study the light emitted by space objects. camera shut down recently due jects. Arecibo telescope, managed by Cornell to electrical failure. Engineers The South Africa Large Telescope ted by these objects using spectroscopy. able mirrors that are hexagonally University, to detect radio emissions estimate that only a third of the (SALT), built in 2005, is equipped with To take photos of objects in space, the shaped, can be tilted forward and back- from the Crab Nebula pulsar, which is a camera’s full capabilities will be an optical corrector assembly that helps telescope is equipped with the SALTI- ward using special controls. star that emits radio waves. According to restored immediately. detect objects in distant space. SALT CAM, a camera that also measures the Astronomers in Australia use a Cornell press release, the Crab Nebula Many scientists mourned the is the largest optical telescope in the intensity and absorption of light. a similarly designed microscope called pulsar is smaller than a soccer ball. Yet, loss of Hubble’s main camera as southern hemisphere. Carnegie Mellon “This telescope does, in fact, have the Anglo-Australian telescope. The this pulsar emits extremely strong radio a research tool, as it produced University is one of many institutions the capability to measure polarization,” telescope allows astronomers to view waves in short time intervals — about the clearest images of the uni- that funded its construction. Griffi ths said. the center of the Milky Way galaxy and a four-tenths of a nanosecond. verse to date. Hubble is due to Carnegie Mellon physics professor SALT contains a number of subsys- collection of smaller galaxies called the This type of radio emission has be replaced by the James Webb Richard Griffi ths said, “Basically, we tems as well. In particular, the telescope Magellanic Clouds. never been seen before, and research- Space Telescope in the near fu- build bigger and bigger telescopes all structure is capable of positioning and The telescope, 3.9 meters in diameter, ers suspect that it may be due to a third ture after several more servicing the time because we want to see fainter reporting the direction of the telescope uses charge coupled devices (CCDs), magnetic pole that is separate from the missions. and fainter things.” direction within fi ve arc-seconds, or which convert light into digital signals to usual north and south poles. Griffi ths said that SALT is currently 5/3600 of a degree. produce images of distant objects. These As writer Timothy Ferris stated in Source: BBC News under commission but in the process of The primary mirror of the telescope images are then stored onto a computer. his book The Big Shebang, “We live in a being tested. Once it is in use, its pri- further focuses light collected from the The Anglo-Australian telescope is changing universe, and few things are mary purpose will be to take photos of surrounding environment. The mirror, equipped with spectrographs, or in- changing faster than our conception of Compiled by

objects in space and analyze light emit- comprised of 91 smaller, interchange- struments that divide incoming light it.” Albert Lin THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 A5 Researchers tag DNA with fluorescent dye

DNA, from A4 age, which will allow us to detect The interaction between tags and to form non-covalent bonds with molecules with great sensitivity absorbed light causes the light- the DNA. ples. Moreover, monitoring DNA without interfering with the bio- emitting and light-harvesting In the press release, Armitage activity of mutant and healthy logical processes we are trying to tags to fl uoresce at different col- stated, “The primary advantages cells is important for determin- understand.” ors, accounting for the additional of our system are the simplic- ing the effectiveness of cancer The structure of a fl uorescent capacity to differentiate between ity of its design combined with treatments in individual patient molecule is based on the design strands. the ease with which the fl uores- cases. The population and activ- of phycobiliproteins, proteins The fl uorescent molecules are cence brightness and color can be nity of cancerous and healthy cells found in certain types of pho- inserted in between DNA bases, tuned.” within a tissue can help doctors tosynthetic algae. According to which are stacked on top of one According to Waggoner, this determine whether recurrence the press release, the proteins another. Other dyeing methods process also makes detection is likely and further treatment is contain multiple fl uorescent pig- usually have a single fl uorescent more sensitive so that the mark- needed. ments that absorb light energy marker for every strand of DNA, ers can contribute less volume y “For example, two different and transfer it to chlorophyll so this new method far exceeds to the structure. Furthermore, populations of cells, one healthy before photosynthetic processes previous levels of brightness. For Waggoner said, “Since you can and the other cancerous, could be utilize the absorbed energy. The example, if a strand of DNA con- use many different kinds of dyes distinguished based on labeling fl uorescent DNA nanotags devel- sists of 30 bases, 15 markers can … you could perhaps get multiple athem with different color fl uores- oped by the MBIC team imitate be attached to the molecule as reagents of different color so that cent nanotags,” Armitage said in this light-harvesting process to opposed to one. This can create a you could detect several different the press release. create very luminescent, fl uores- level of fl uorescence 15 times as things at once.” Graduate student Andrea cent labels. bright as normal. Although this development yBenvin, who is part of Armitage’s According to Armitage, “light- According to Armitage’s pub- marks an important advance research group, stated in the harvesting” tags allow for further lication, these assemblies of in the fi eld of DNA fl uorescent press release, “Our DNA nano- differentiation between different fl uorescent molecules are advan- marking, Armitage stated in the tags offer unprecedented den- DNA strands. These light-harvest- tageously simple. In particular, press release, “We really feel that sities of fl uorescent dyes and, ing dyes are excited by a certain researchers used base pairing to this is the tip of the iceberg and thus, the potential for extremely wavelength of light and transfer assemble the DNA nanostructure, that nanotags 100 times brighter bright fl uorescent labels.... We’ve energy to other “light-emitting” and the fl uorescent molecules than existing labels can be devel- put it all into a very small pack- tags on the nanotag’s surface. were then added to the solution oped in any color.” n y Invasive plants may harm other garden plants

MUSEUM, from A4 age to brick walls or other structures, as its said. “It takes work.” The primary goal of y tiny roots deteriorate the surface. Backyard Invasion is to educate visitors on l our native species,” said Cynthia Morton, Able to adapt quickly to new environments the differences between invasive and endan- associate curator and head of botany for the and produce seeds in short cycles, invasive gered plants, and why it matters to protect the museum, and a professor of biology at both plants can be extremely hard to eliminate. latter. the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Any removal effort is certain to cost money as One endangered plant depicted in Back- Mellon. well as time. yard Invasion is the Maryland meadow beauty m According to a report by the Plant Conser- When the problem becomes suffi ciently (Rhexia mariana). “There’s only two rhexias vation Alliance, purple loosestrife fi rst made large, however, it is no longer practical to pull in Pennsylvania,” Morton said; one is endan- it to North America in the 19th century, when out invasive weeds by hand. At this point, it gered, and the other close. it was desired for medicinal and decorative becomes the job of a professional to handle What’s important is to replace invasive purposes. Traced back to both Europe and the situation, either through mechanical plants with native ones. If the ground re- l Asia, loosestrife is still sought after for its removal (digging or cutting) or chemical mains bare, invasive plants are more likely to t looks, though it has been made illegal in Min- removal (herbicide). Frequently, one must up- return. To choose a native plant that is sure nesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois in an attempt root invasive plants for years in a row before to fl ourish, the Landscape and Nursery Asso- m to protect native plants. they stop growing back. Still, Morton insists, ciation recommends observing which species Another more common example of an in- it’s worth the effort. are present in neighboring areas. vasive plant is ivy. “This is one all people Though many invasive plants made it to For gardeners only interested in plants with can recognize,” Morton said. “It grows every- North America through accidental means, “exotic” features, another option exists: culti- where.” sometimes people go right out and buy them. vars. Cultivars are native plants developed for English ivy (Hedera helix) has the ability to Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and many local garden specifi c qualities, taking into account aesthet- y grow quickly and densely. When attached to shops sell invasive plants to customers who ics, size, blooming-period, and the presence a tree, the ivy will spread to cover increasing probably don’t know any better, Morton ex- of thorns. portions of its host, which will eventually die plained. Cultivars can satisfy a consumer’s wants n from lack of sunlight. Ivy can also cause dam- “If you can’t control it, don’t plant it,” she without harming the environment. New test may reject string theory

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attempted to reconcile these two tering of W-bosons, from which violated.... It seems highly un- interpretations of physical inter- the boundaries outlined by string likely.” At the same time, Roth- action. String theory postulates theory can be tested. W-bosons, stein thinks that it is important that the fundamental form of fi rst detected at the European Or- to test string theory. “Everyone lmatter is not particle-shaped, but ganization for Nuclear Research always comes down on string yrather, string-shaped. (CERN) in 1983, are elementary theory because we never know if The vibration of these strings particles that control the weak it is right,” he said, “but one thing nin multiple dimensions deter- nuclear force. Higgs bosons are that you might know is whether it mines their excitation mode, theoretical particles that govern is wrong.” which is the type of elementary the difference between massive In the case that the results do particle they represent, such as particles, such as bosons and pro- falsify string theory, there is no bosons, pions, and fermions. Su- tons, and massless particles such shortage of viable alternatives. persymmetry in string theory as photons. Loop quantum gravity, for ex- then relates the particles that The LHC, which will be the ample, is an alternate quantum transmit forces to the particles largest particle accelerator in the fi eld theory that breaks Lorentz that make up matter. world when it begins operation invariance, one of the core as- Distler said that string theory in Switzerland later this year, sumptions of string theory. Other is an “effective fi eld theory” that is hoped by many to be the fi rst more esoteric theories may come n describes physics in terms of de- particle accelerator capable of to the forefront as well. grees of freedom on a particular detecting and analyzing Higgs According to Distler, however, energy scale. The experiment bosons. we should not expect to see re- outlined in the paper attempts This paper is the fi rst attempt to sults from the experiment for to determine the nature of the develop an experiment that may a few more years. However, re- ultraviolet completion of string disprove string theory. Research- searchers are very excited about theory, which is how string the- ers are mostly expecting to see the prospects of this experiment, ory should behave in high-energy the bounds set by string theory regardless of the outcome. “If we situations. satisfi ed by this experiment. don’t fi nd the Higgs, a violation of “If the values lie outside some Distler said that a success- our bounds will turn out to have range, it tells you something very ful outcome in the experiment, a strong impact on our thinking, profound about physics at the however, should not be seen as not just in high energy physics, high-energy scales, namely that anything more than a weak sup- and that would be just great,” g what we’re seeing is not of the port for string theory. The results Porto stated. expected sort, like string theory,” of the experiment can effectively “I don’t expect to see the Distler said. rule out certain quantum fi eld bounds violated either, but if they The paper outlines a method of theories but not serve as verifi ca- are, well, that’s how physics pro- using the Large Hadron Collider tion. gresses,” Distler said. y(LHC) to detect the creation of a Rothstein said, “I highly nlight Higgs boson during the scat- doubt that the bounds would be Forum A6 THE TARTAN February 5, 2007 FromTheEditorialBoard SayWhat? The apathetic American left Casey Taylor gay marriage rally by booking a local Unitarian Church minister to give his I walked down to the CVS in Squirrel thoughts on the state of our country. Hill for a pack of condoms the other Until these issues start to gain some day, sex-crazed and with a dry throat, true star power, some of the Martin and had a brief moment of dread and Luther King-esque eloquence that so fear when the entrance was blocked marked the civil rights movement of the by a group of middle-aged Christians 1960s, it is unfair to expect the average holding dead-fetus banners. “They American to give a damn about them. never had a choice,” the captions read, Perhaps you disagree. Perhaps you and at the bottom an image of Christ on think that I’m selling Americans short the cross stared back at me. There was and that the average American, even something oddly poetic about this group with all the celebrity gossip worship, of mostly overweight women prancing reality television programming, and around and shouting to no one in par- fast food consumption, still has time to ticular. What especially struck me was learn all angles of an issue. Maybe you the lack of bystanders gathered to hear believe that the average American still their message. A stack of pamphlets sat has the ability to understand the com- on a table outside of the entrance un- plex nature of political issues facing touched. Nobody cared. this country, and that no excuse should I got to thinking: When was the last be made for those citizens who ignore time a protest made any noise? When the problems facing their country; that was the last time a group of political these particular Americans should fi nd activists did anything but make the inspiration in the issues themselves, as Michelle Lee/Art Staff top story of the evening news only to opposed to the leaders of each respec- never be mentioned again? Americans tive movement inspiring them to get have become the generation of the New off the couch and make full use of their Peduto looks out for student rights Dumb: ignorant to the issues and with- voice as members of a democracy. out a care in the world. Where were you But can we really blame these people Do you live off campus? Take a mo- the owner will not be permitted to bad, right? — there are some issues that when the country stopped caring? for needing a spectacle to draw their at- ment and step out on the sidewalk. How charge rent for someone to live there. might complicate things. The biggest I’m not just singling out the middle- tention to the political sphere? Maybe many houses on your street would you The measures would not necessarily of these is that landlords might start aged Jesus-freak crowd as ineffective. this country has been spoiled with great call “total disaster areas”? If you live on change the criteria by which a property cracking down on their tenants and Actually, in today’s America they’re leadership in the past. Maybe we had a Beeler Street or in the residential areas could fail inspection; instead, they are requiring a higher level of upkeep of fi ghting for the group that’s constantly few scattered decades of great leaders of Oakland, chances are that number is intended to make it easier for the city to rented property, therefore shifting the winning: the religious right. The liberal who could inspire a nation, and these pretty high. actually enforce the current inspection onus of preparing for these inspections movement as a whole has completely few leaders should be the exception in- It would not be a stretch to say that laws. onto students. Another possibility is that lost its voice in modern America. There stead of the rule. for many students at Carnegie Mellon, Landlords aren’t happy, of course — landlords may just opt to increase rent to are no groups left in this country that Regardless of what you believe re- Beeler Street’s reputation precedes it. especially because the city may also gain make up for the cost of keeping a closer command respect from the public as garding those points, you can’t argue City Councilman Bill Peduto is aware the ability to get warrants to inspect a eye on their property. As many students a whole, voicing their opinions loudly with the fact that every high-school- of it too, and he’s proposing reformed house based on neighbor complaints. living off campus already know, rent in and refusing to back down for their age student in America is in a history housing inspection legislation that Several local landlords are already these areas is already bordering on ab- would make it much harder for student intending to fi ght the legislation (ac- surdly high. housing landlords to ignore deteriorat- cording to an article in the January 26 Peduto has made a habit of being con- ing conditions on their properties. issue of the Post-Gazette), and it seems cerned with students’ rights, and this Where’s the Malcom X of gay marriage? The proposal would codify mandatory likely that others will follow suit. legislation seems like a great idea with inspections of student-zoned property While on the surface these new mea- a few possible pitfalls. Now might be When is immigration going to fi nd the (e.g., the houses in Oakland and on sures from Peduto seem to be a great a good time to start making sure your Beeler that are rented to students). If boon to students — new enforcement house is up to snuff, and making your leadership of a Cesar Chavez? the properties don’t pass the inspection, of a higher standard of living can’t be landlord do something about it if it isn’t.

cause. It is the age of diplomacy in- classroom learning about Malcolm X, Fear the fabric stead of the age of action as it had once Bobby Seale, and Che Guevara and Despite the Scottie dog that may be experience? Our classes are calibrated on carnival rides every spring. Loving been in this country. Nobody wants then heading home to watch the news stitched on your school sweatshirt and in “units” instead of the more typical the things that make us nerdy is a part to have a clear-cut message anymore. and wonder why fi gures like that don’t the furry, larger-than-life version of “credits.” Our computer science majors of Carnegie Mellon culture. An excellent example is the left’s lack exist in modern-day society. And before the canine that makes appearances at take a class in which they are supposed Being without a mascot is just another of a clear stance on abortion. Liberals kids get a chance to truly ponder this sporting events, Carnegie Mellon has no to learn to socialize. Our most widely at- way that Carnegie Mellon retains its are completely afraid of stepping on fact, they sit down in front of the televi- offi cial mascot. Students and staff taking tended sporting event is not the Home- pleasant distinctiveness. We certainly people’s toes or being offensive and sion and get exposed to today’s leaders: issue with our lack of a unifying symbol coming game, but crack-of-dawn buggy don’t want to end up with a boring, ge- are subsequently losing some part of Ryan Seacrest, TomKat, and, of course, formed the Mascot Task Force and have races in which we all gather to watch re- neric mascot like an eagle or a bear, nor their demographic. The fact is, Ameri- Brad and Angelina. Yes sir, nothing like been trying to create an offi cial mascot ally small people get shoved into strange do we want to be a mascot tragedy like cans don’t care about anything political dulling the senses and living the Ameri- for our university. In developing poten- vehicles and pushed up and down hills. the Wichita State University Shockers, anymore and — get this — it’s not their can Dream to its fullest. tial candidates, the task force is taking And we are represented by tartan plaid represented by an anthropomorphic fault. Since the American Dream is to The true frustration comes from the into consideration factors such as the instead of having an offi cial mascot. shock of wheat affectionately called pass blame on somebody else, I’m going average American’s inability to spot characteristics that the mascot should Most students embrace our unique- WuShock. We prefer being the Carnegie to give America the proverbial freebie the lack of political direction. It seems embody and whether or not it should ness. We have a strange pride in the Mellon Tartans. We are epitomized by on this one. as though after we began to right the embrace our Scottish tradition. things that make our university different our choice to be represented by a Scot- We have reached an age in this coun- (political) ship in the ’60s and ’70s, our Instead, we would like to advocate and, at times, ridiculous. We brag about tish plaid. Fear the fabric. try in which no respectable public good faith overtook our better judg- maintaining our strong Carnegie Mellon it to our friends at other schools: Your fi gures from the left are stepping up for ment. We now live under the assump- tradition of being non-traditional. Since university’s stadium may have a seating Editorial Dissent: the causes they believe are right. Sure, tion that decisions made by our political when has attending Carnegie Mellon capacity upwards of 50,000, but we have groups of people get together every leaders must, under any circumstance, ever been akin to the typical college a roboceptionist and get to whirl around We should be the Loch Ness Monsters. now and then, marching through the be what are ultimately best for our na- streets until police offi cers arrive and tion’s future. Even if we disagree, as a break the scene up, but what liberal po- whole we fi gure that voicing our opin- Publicly funded research is public domain litical group in this country has a leader ion can make no major difference. you can look at and directly associate Without the leadership of a few in- As taxpayers, we have grown accus- Every year, taxpayers of every ed- the system and introduced a bill last with an issue? This isn’t the ’60s and spirational fi gures outside of the Con- tomed to blindly following the rules — ucation level and economic status year that would require federal agen- ’70s anymore, which is completely evi- gressional political arena, American chipping in every year without giving a unknowingly contribute to the $55 bil- cies that spend more than $100 million dent by the lack of memorable political liberals are doomed to wallow in their second thought about where that money lion that the federal government spends a year on external research to make fi gures outside of the offi cial political own self-pity for another few decades. is going, who it’s going to, or what it’s annually to fund research, the results of articles based on that research as avail- arena. Where’s the Malcolm X of gay On the other hand, there’s always the being used for. At the same time, we which are only published in scholarly able to the public as roads or parks, via marriage? When is immigration going possibility that one of these fi gures will expect to have access to those things journals, according to the American the Internet. to fi nd the leadership of a Cesar Chavez? break through in the near future, ral- that we know lie within the bounds of Library Association (ALA). Because ac- The bill, called the Federal Research Are any of the Iraq protest groups ever lying Americans for or against any or the public domain — if a road’s been cessing these journals requires a paid Public Access Act, would be particularly going to fi nd a leader that rivals Abbie all of the hot-button issues facing our repaved, we expect to be able to drive subscription, the journals are most likely advantageous to students, who are of- Hoffman? disenfranchised nation. Have no fear, on it. If a new park has been built, we viewed by a small subgroup of the aca- ten interested in research but unwilling You’re probably beginning to un- ladies and gentlemen, for when that expect to be able to walk through it. demic elite, who have both the interest to spend money on a scientifi c journal. derstand what I’m getting at. I don’t day arrives and that leader takes center However, taxpayers will probably never and the money to read what are effec- If the research is shared, its effects blame Americans for lacking interest in stage, you’ll recognize it. But you might know how the government’s share of tively the fruits of the public’s labor. will reach and eventually improve the American issues because, quite frankly, not care. their hard-earned paychecks will be Fortunately, Senator John Cornyn (R– lives of a much wider audience than it none of the issues have attracted any allocated; most likely, it’s because the Texas) and Senator Joseph Lieberman would if it continued to be limited to interesting fi gureheads yet. You can’t Casey Taylor (caseyt@) is a sophomore government presumes they don’t care. (I–Conn.) understood the injustice of such a narrow demographic. attract thousands of supporters to a creative writing major.

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Personnel Manager Office: University Center 314 Mail: PATRICK GAGE KELLY, Dossier Literary Editor MICHELLE BOVA, Contributing Editor Phone: (412) 268-2111 The Tartan / Box 1017 Fax: (412) 268-1596 Carnegie Mellon University Web: www.thetartan.org Pittsburgh, PA 15289-1017 E-mail: [email protected] THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 A7 Barack Obama by any other name should smell just as sweet Presidential going by Louisa, my first name, for the Presidential office. not because I felt insecure about The idea that one’s name is my middle name, but because directly linked to success is a Perspectives I wanted to protect the name myth. In the book Freakonomics: Louisa Kinoshi Bukola. A Rogue Economist Explores Feedback on It turns out that I’m not the Hidden Side of Everything, In 2000, when I initial- the only one who has run into Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen mixed-gender ly moved back to the United problems with my name and J. Dubner claim that the name of States after living in Nigeria, identity. In a speech on November a child does not affect the future housing needed everyone knew me as Bukola. 9, 2006, Barack Obama spoke success of that child. The evi- During school registration I about the insecurities with his dence in the book from California was given the option of choos- identity that he felt as a child. data showed that on average, a ing which name to go by, and I Because he came from such a person with a distinctively black chose Bukola, my middle name, humble background — his father name like Imani or DeShawn does because it is the name I had been was a goat farmer — he never not have a worse life outcome referred to by family and friends thought that he would be able to that a woman named Molly or Karl Sjogren & Andrea Hamilton all my life. I was very proud of my become the household name that Jake. Instead, people’s economic name because Olubukola means he is today. circumstances or the education “God has added to my wealth” in “Who would have ever level of their parents are far bet- In college, we meet a lot of Yoruba. Bukola is as popular in thought the son of a woman from ter predictors of future success. cool new people: friends from Yoruba towns as Ashley or Emily Kansas and father from Kenya In Freakonomics, Levitt and fl oors, classes, clubs, and social is in the United States. Bukola, with a name like Barack Obama Dubner tell the story of Robert gatherings. These people end up however, did not run smooth- would become a United States Lane, a black father who named being the cornerstone of our col- ly off the tongues of my high Senator?” Obama said in his one of his sons Winner and the lege experience — the people we school classmates. They called speech. other Loser. Ironically, Loser went Elizabeth Liu/Art Staff want to spend time with, share me everything from “Buquisha” Obama is now exploring to prep school, graduated from Security Administration, in 2005, United States citizens will be experiences with, and, more of- to “Coca Cola.” the possibility of competing for Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, the most popular baby girl name willing to look past something as ten than not, live with. So why The naming process in the the Democratic candidacy for and joined the New York Police was Emily and the most popu- trivial as a name and look more shouldn’t we be able to live with Yoruba culture is extensive. My President. Unfortunately for Department where he eventually lar boy name was Jacob. These into the personality, leadership our friends even if we aren’t the deceased grandfather meditated Obama, his last name has been made sergeant. Winner Lane, on babies should not expect to be characteristics, and diplomacy same gender? on the name Olubukola for eight mistaken for and mispronounced the other hand, has a criminal more successful than individuals skills of our next leader. Currently, Housing’s room as- days before I was officially given as “Osama,” and his middle name record with nearly three dozen named Bernethea or Burritt. As signment process requires that my name at a huge naming cer- is Hussein. These names conjure arrests for burglary and domestic for Barack Obama, I don’t think Louisa Kinoshi (lok@) is a profes- pairing be made by gender. It emony. Because my name was so up obvious images of Osama bin violence, among other charges. his name will be a huge issue sional writing and international doesn’t matter how well you get carefully chosen, I was upset that Laden and Saddam Hussein. The These anecdotes invalidate the during the 2008 elections. With relations major. She will have along with a friend, you can’t Olubukola had become subject to question remains whether pos- myth that one’s name greatly issues like our failure in Iraq, the trouble choosing between Hillary share a space with someone of the insulting mispronounciation sible negative associations with influences that person’s chances continued growth of terrorism, Clinton and Barack Obama in the opposite gender. We think it’s of my ignorant American friends. Senator Obama’s name will dra- for success. gay rights, and the after-effects 2008, so she sincerely hopes they time to change this. In college, I succumbed. I started matically affect his potential run According to the Social of Hurricane Katrina, I hope that become running mates. Last semester we crafted a proposal to implement a pilot study to test whether or not stu- dents would be interested in Crocs are for the birds mixed-gender apartment living. Molly Ivins’ voice left quite a mark The pilot study calls for a one- to Colbert so brilliantly skewers in flick is absurd — but that’s the best represented in a shoe by a two-year period to study market blowhards like Bill O’Reilly. point. Ivins’ unique delivery supple rubber material just like demand, administrative needs, Molly’s healthy disrespect embodied her mission to knock that of the “beach” minus the and residents’ concerns. The pi- for authority grew out of her government off its pedestal and gaping holes. This way, snow lot study was designed to focus Marshall Roy Jessica Thurston relationship with her hard-line into the hands of the common has no way of touching your on the Small Oakland Houses We would-be raconteurs, father. Her inability to suffer people where she believed it precious toes. But, um, your (SOH) and would allow mixed- straight shooters, and cutters fools grew out of reporting on belonged. She could have writ- I’d like to design a shoe. The exposed heel protected only by gender cohabitation. of the crap are mourning our the Texas Legislature early in her ten, “It is pointless for the gov- shoe would be comfortable and a thin strap of plastic might get So how would this work? While sass-mouthed queen this week, career. ernment to reclassify documents relatively versatile — I want to a little frostbitten out there on it’s certainly not a simple change, our rabble-rouser-in-residence. As a journalist, it was Molly’s once they have been declassified, be able to wear it in more than the slopes. Apparently the Nile it would still closely resemble Syndicated columnist and glee- job to be direct, accessible, and because people have already one place and to do more than River is also best traversed in the current room draw process. ful turd in the political punch concise. But she went one step seen them and know what they one thing. Besides being func- sweat-inducing plastic material During room draw you would bowl Molly Ivins succumbed to further, employing a conver- contain.” That’s clear and direct, tional, the shoe would be at least with a cutout for the toes. indicate a roommate assignment breast cancer last Wednesday at sational tone that was at times too, but it lacks Ivins’ snarky remotely attractive. Even if it’s According to the Crocs web- preference: male, female, or no the age of 62. She once joked humorous, but always straight- irreverence. It’s not nearly as best for a specific activity, the site, the shoes were created for preference. Your room would be that her writing was energized forward and persuasive. Her memorable. shoe wouldn’t look like a fish out boating and the outdoors. This fi lled accordingly. If Housing is by “truly impressive amounts of prose style was unique because it All right, I admit it: Part of the of water in everyday life. seems reasonably plausible. unable to place someone accord- beer.” In that vein, the next time refused to align itself with what reason I love Molly Ivins’ writ- Now, what shoe are you pictur- While such colors as purple and ing to your preferences, the room I crack open a cold one, I’ll raise most readers expected from ing so much is that I agree with ing? What do these descriptions bright yellow may not be totally would default to Housing’s cur- it to her. political criticism or commen- her. I’m sure a reader of a differ- conjure up in the mind? Is it, say, appropriate for the laid-back rent same-gender standard. In If you’re not familiar with tary. And while unconventional, ent political persuasion would the opposite of Crocs? nautical lifestyle, the general other words, if our student com- Molly’s work, here’s what you Molly’s ethos was breathtakingly loathe in her what I love — he Crocs are chunky, rubbery, ideas of a supported foot base munity does not want to take ad- need to know: She was feisty, appropriate. Her refusal to speak or she would find Ivins’ sarcasm gaudy shoes. The best-selling and holes from which water can vantage of the new housing op- she was a Texan, and she was the formalized language of poli- snotty and obnoxious, her down- version has massive, sweat- escape are generally good ones. tion, then housing options revert chicken soup for the liberal soul. tics made her criticism not only home tone condescending and releasing holes. And with colors Also, rubber won’t become sat- back to the status quo. She hit the telling-it-like-it-is memorable, but incisive as well. disingenuous. But golly — I’ve such as fuchsia, lime, and “orange urated or stained like a regular Because the pilot study would tone (which many writers aim It created, and then worked in, yet to find a conservative writer (coral)” (which are actually not canvas shoe, which is a plus for focus on self-contained, apart- for or are wrongly credited with) its own context. with so fine an ethos, with a the same colors), these plas- gardening or boating. ment-style living, Housing would on the bull’s eye. She made her In her April 27, 2006 column, sense of self so accurate and so tic platforms have no problem But what about for walking be able to test the viability of readers think, laugh, and then rivaling the most blinding colors around campus? Unless you mixed-gender housing without think some more. rarely found in nature. crawl to class on your hands impacting students who aren’t She once said that government She was fi esty, she was a Texan, and she First of all, using an abbre- and knees picking weeds from interested in a mixed-gender en- (or, as she was fond of writing in was chicken soup for the liberal soul. viated version of the name of around the shrubbery, or take a vironment. All students would her Texas vernacular, guvment) a monstrous, murderous reptile sailboat across Forbes Avenue, be able to try mixed-gender liv- was the best form of free enter- does nothing but beg for doom. I plastic shoes with massive holes ing except incoming fi rst-years. tainment. She loved exposing all she defended the privacy of late unshakable. Maybe I can’t see would personally like to keep my in them do not seem entirely We’ve observed that our peer that was hypocritical and absurd reporter Jack Anderson when the forest through the trees (“for- feet firmly attached to my legs, ideal for the Pittsburgh envi- institutions (like NYU, for exam- in our nation’s leaders — which the Bush administration wanted est” signifying my crippling bias rather than to lure crocodiles ronment. In fact, if you’re not ple) have mixed-gender apart- is to say, she had her work cut out to seize the files he’d kept dur- and “trees” my unabashed liber- searching for their little brothers planning on going boating or ments, and we’ve introduced the for her in the 21st century. ing his decades as a journalist. alism). Go figure. or sisters to come snipping at my doing some intense gardening, idea to Student Senate, Student She even had the stones to The column also criticized the In any case, do yourself a ankles, thank you very much. wearing shoes with huge holes Dormitory Council, and relevant regularly refer to President Bush administration’s extreme secre- favor: Look her up and read a Secondly, the most popular Croc around your toes (what Crocs staff members. But we need stu- as “Shrub,” and her unofficial cy. As Ivins settled into her argu- column or two. Whatever your is called the “beach.” Apparently calls a “ventilated toe box” dent input! Is this something you slogan was “raise hell.” ment, her distinctive voice began political inclinations, you’ll love not capitalizing a proper noun — hot) is almost embarrassing. want? The only way to get Hous- But if you want to talk about it to surface: “Those who saw getting to know her. And when and referring to a warm, out- The holes are just an attempt to ing to move forward is to give in fancy words, what Molly had government documents between you’re finished, I bet you’ll like doorsy location makes a product keep you from slipping around them a better sense of students’ was a near-perfect ethos, which declassification and reclassifica- her, or at least respect her, even seem really cool. in your own disgusting foot demands. is the most mysterious and, I tion are just going to have to if, on the off-chance that you’re A handful of other Crocs sweat. You know, from being If you have any comments, pos- think, most important aspect of forget what they saw. That, or a humorless Rebiblican, you dis- shoes are called “cayman,” crammed inside a clunky, glori- itive or negative, please e-mail rhetoric. If you imagine a piece of some Man in Black will be sent agree with her. “nile,” “islander,” “aspen,” and fied rubber glove. [email protected] ASAP. All persuasive writing as a little win- around to zap your memory with “athens.” Again with the lack student comments will be col- dow into a writer’s sensibilities, a little thingamajig.” Marshall Roy (mroy@) was 2006 of proper capitalization. And, Jessica Thurston (jthursto@) is lected and referred to Housing. the ethos is what you’d see if you Comparing government prac- Forum editor of The Tartan. He according to Crocs, Aspen (as a member of the Facebook group We can do this, but we need your peered inside. It’s what Stephen tices to a fluffy science fiction welcomes responses. in that place people go skiing) is Abolish Crocs. support.

Pittsburgh has frozen over. So we asked, A PERSON’s OPINION Compiled by Max Jordan, Su Chu, and Deren Guler What’s the best way to keep warm outside?

Maria Mauro Jon-Michael Reese Ryan Handerhan Drew Gidwani Tim Ruff First-Year Sophomore First-Year Sophomore First-Year Biology and Political Science Music Theater Information Systems Computer Science Music

“Drink hot chocolate.” “[It’s] all about the layers.” “Wrap myself up like a marshmallow with “I like long, silk underwear.” “Long walks on the beach, chocolate, and gimongous marshmallow jackets.” cuddling.” A8 THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 A9

SPORTS COMMENTARY Men’s basketball wins one, loses one The fl ight of the Phoenix: Destination Dallas MEN, from A10 held on for the 11-point vic- Doug Fricker The Phoenix Suns are such Forward Dirk Nowitzki leads tory. a powerful offensive team, the the team in scoring and is their Emory shot 52 percent for only teams that have been able lone All-Star. Josh Howard is a the game compared to the Tar- Haven’t been following the to fi nd success against them budding superstar while guards tans’ 40 percent. Kozak led the National Basketball Association are Dallas and Utah. The Suns Jason Terry and Devin Harris way for Carnegie Mellon with (NBA) this season? I don’t blame lead the league with an average are a solid backcourt combina- 18 points as fi ve players scored you. The fi rst three quarters of of 111 points per game. With tion. Jerry Stackhouse provides in double fi gures. Anderson an NBA game matter about as Steve Nash at point guard av- a scoring punch off the bench. and O’Rourke each scored much as what the second man eraging 11.9 assists per game Dallas’ depth and Phoenix’s 14 points, senior guard Brad on the moon said. Throwing all (he’s leading the league; Utah’s lack thereof will loom large in Matta chipped in 11, and soph- this aside, two NBA teams, the Deron Williams is way back in the second half of the season, omore center Rob Pearson had Phoenix Suns and the Dallas second, averaging nine) the with the Suns running the risk 10 points and eight rebounds. Mavericks, are winning at such Suns have that certain fl air in of running out of gas when it Sophomore forward Ryan an incredible rate that they’re their offense that can be mes- matters most, around playoff Einwag led the team with 11 getting a column written about merizing to watch. Along with time. rebounds in the loss. them. Nash, forwards Shawn Marion As Dallas and Phoenix keep “[Emory] got an early lead Dallas and Phoenix became and Amare Stoudamire pour in racking up wins, making their on us and I know I’ve said it just the third pair of teams in the points and make the offense opponents look like blindfolded before, but you just can’t fall NBA history to enter February click. Add Leandro Barbosa, kids trying to hit a piñata, the behind on the road in the with an .800 winning percent- Raja Bell, and Boris Diaw (que stage is being set up for the UAA,” Matta said. “We were age. Dallas at 39–9 and Phoenix sera sera et c’est la vie; he’s playoffs. down 17 at one point and we at 37–10 are pulverizing their French) into the equation and With the Eastern Conference got it down to nine. Then, they opponents with little or no sign you have six players who aver- lacking the fi repower found in just hit shots the same way we of letting up, and try this on for age double fi gures. the Western Conference, forget did against Case, only at that size, the Mavericks lost their The Suns are giving up de- about the NBA Finals. Phoenix point we were down nine in- File Photo fi rst four games of the season fense in the process of having is 10–0 on the road and 19–1 stead of up by nine.” The men’s basketball team is 5–4 in the UAA with fi ve UAA games left. while Phoenix lost four of their the best offense and they’re okay overall against Eastern Confer- fi rst fi ve! Dallas is 25–2 since with that. They’re 22nd in the ence teams. December 11. Phoenix is 34–4 NBA in points per game given It’s hard to fathom a team Sports in Season since November 18. up, whereas the Mavericks are from the East winning four of Dallas has separate win second. The Mavericks are also seven after seeing a stat like Floor Hockey — Games are being played in streaks of 12 games and 13 eighth in the league in points that. The real series to watch the arena room in Skibo Gym. Schedules are games this season. That’s noth- per game showing they’re as will be the Western Conference available in the IM Offi ce. ing, say the Suns, who have balanced as a tight-rope walker. Finals, when the two best teams separate win streaks of 15 and They’ve also got depth, playing in the NBA battle it out just to Basketball — Games are now being played at 17 games on their résumé this 10 players a night compared to determine who makes it to the Administration the UC. Games are played Monday through season. seven for the Suns. NBA Finals. Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons. Director: Mike Mastroianni, x8-2214 or Schedules are available in the IM Offi ce. mma8@ Assistant Director: Mike Grzywinski, x8-2214 Team Badminton — Games start tonight. Women’s basketball falls on the road or immike@ Games are played Monday through Thursday Secretary: Amy Kiryk, x8-2053 or kiryk@ nights in Skibo Gym on Court ‘A’ (stage end). WOMEN, from A10 the Tartans headed into the sec- Williamson led the Tartans’ Student Co-Presidents: Bill Ross, wross1@, or Schedules are available at the IM Offi ce. ond half trailing by one (27–26). scoring with 14 points. Senior Jon Kline, jlkline@ ing 17 points to the Tartans’ 14 First-year guard Paige William- point guard Ashley Mazziotta Women’s President: Ashley Mazziotta, All Sports Update (through all fall semester and ending the game. The Spar- son led the Tartans’ offense with was next with eight points and amazziot@ sports) tans hit 46.4 percent of their 11 points in the fi rst half. fi ve rebounds. shots as Carnegie Mellon made Carnegie Mellon scored nine “We tried a new defense and Important Dates Men just 37 percent. Case players Ma- points at the beginning of the it worked really well, but we just ria Jackson and Ashley Horton third quarter, putting them ahead couldn’t convert on the offensive Monday, February 5 — Team badminton starts 1. PiKA 2341 were instrumental in the Spartan before Emory took the lead for end,” Darcher said. “Once we in Skibo Gym. 2. ACF 1250 win, scoring 26 and 14 points, re- good with 15 minutes left in the start hitting out shots, we will be 3. AC Mellon, What’s Football, MRU 750 (tie) spectively. game. fi ne. We just need to keep work- Thursday, February 8 — Rosters due for Two days later on Sunday, the The Eagles hit 47.3 percent of ing on that.” individual table tennis and call pool by 4:30 Women Emory Eagles (8–12, 2–7) saw their shots while Carnegie Mel- The Tartans (8–12, 2–7) con- p.m. in the IM Offi ce. success on their home court, de- lon made a meager 31.3 percent. tinue their road trip this week, 1. Hoopers 1050 feating Carnegie Mellon by 22 “We just couldn’t hit anything, traveling to Boston and New York Thursday, February 15 — Rosters due for 2. East Siders and Thensome 500 points. it seemed,” senior guard Nora City to play Brandeis University indoor soccer. 3. SPIRIT 450 The Tartans came out strong, Darcher said. “There just isn’t and New York University in two beginning the game with a 6–0 anything you can do when you UAA matchups. The team lost to Thursday, February 22 — Three-on-three E-mail entries — All e-mail rosters are due 24 run. The lead switched hands don’t hit your shots. It was frus- both NYU and Brandeis over win- basketball rosters due. hours prior to stated due dates. throughout the fi rst half, but trating, but we kept trying.” ter break. Sports A10 THE TARTAN February 5, 2007 Men’s basketball team battles Case and Emory ciation games this past weekend held a two-point advantage with Carnegie Mellon shot 40 by Doug Fricker against Case Western Reserve 37 seconds left before sophomore percent from the fi eld, but a dis- Staffwriter University and Emory University. guard Corey O’Rourke tied the appointing 42 percent from the The Tartans edged Case 70–68 on game on a layup with 30 seconds free-throw line, making 13 of The Carnegie Mellon men’s Friday night before falling 94–83 remaining. A Case free throw 31 attempts. Fortunately, Case basketball team split a pair of to Emory Sunday afternoon. gave the Spartans a 68–67 lead Western was equally bad, mak- road University Athletic Asso- On Friday, the host Spartans before junior guard Geoff Kozak ing just 18 of 40 attempts from hit the game-winning three- the charity stripe. pointer with only 9.7 seconds left “This game was back and to give the Tartans the 70–68 forth,” senior guard Brad Matta win. A last-second shot by Case said. “Case made their runs at the was off the mark, giving Kozak beginning of both halves, but we his second game-winner in the overcame adversity and we made past three games. plays when we needed to. Geoff Case Western built a quick hit the huge game-winning three, 11–2 lead to start the game, but we pulled down a rebound when the Tartans answered with a we needed a rebound, and made 21–12 run of their own to tie a shot when we needed a basket. the game at 23 at the 8:22 mark, When it came down to the wire, thanks to a tip-in by fi rst-year for- we were ready to make plays. We ward Dan Sawl. The Tartans then have guys on this team who have took their fi rst lead of the game been in these situations before.” on a driving layup by O’Rourke The Tartans never held the and headed into halftime leading lead against Emory on Sunday, 32-27. with the Eagles using a 29–10 A 19–7 run to begin the second run to create a resounding 36–16 half from Case saw the Tartans lead with 7:35 remaining in the down 46–39, but Carnegie Mel- fi rst half. Carnegie Mellon trailed lon again had an answer, scoring 53–36 at halftime with fi eld goal eight straight points to retake shooting telling the story. Emory the lead with 13 minutes to play. shot 55 percent from the fl oor From this point forward, neither whereas the Tartans came into team led by more than three the locker room shooting 33 per- points. cent. The Tartans made things O’Rourke led the Tartans with interesting in the second half, go- 15 points and sophomore for- ing on a 13–2 run to narrow the ward Dan Martin (starting for gap to 64–56 with 10:42 remain- the fi rst time) added a career- ing after Anderson connected on high 12 points. First-year guard a layup. The Tartans would get Jack Anderson hit a pair of three- no closer, however, as the Eagles File Photo File Photo pointers en route to 10 points and Carnegie Mellon men’s basketball tangled with Case and Emory this past weekend, defeating the Spartans 70–68 but falling to the Eagles 94–83. a team-high seven rebounds. See MEN, page A9 Track and field teams travel to West Virginia

meter dash. ters) and third in the triple jump fourth with a time of 3:24.52. by Sam Kim In the 500-meter run, fi rst-year (13.14 meters). Sophomore Joel Four Carnegie Mellon 400- Staffwriter Chris Bogie led the team with a Palko (12.68 meters) and fi rst- meter runners fi nished in the fourth-place fi nish with a time year Eric Couphos (12.54 meters) top ten; fi rst-year Diane Mat- Last Saturday, the Carnegie of 1:09.74. Junior Kiley Williams grabbed fourth- and sixth-place tingly fi nished third with a time Mellon track and fi eld teams (1:09.91) and senior Jeff Polack fi nishes, respectively. of 1:03.47, and junior Shauna traveled to West Virginia to (1:14.55) fi nished right behind “I’m fairly satisfi ed with my Ormon (1:30.54), senior Jackie compete at the State Farm Shell Bogie in fi fth and seventh place, performance in the long and Andreozzi (1:04.77), and junior games. The men’s team had respectively. triple jump although I could have Kelly Mingle (1:06.78) fi nished three individual fi rst-place fi n- Senior Davey Quinn fi nished done a little better,” Tang said. “I fourth, sixth, and ninth, respec- ishes while the women’s team second in the 800-meter dash kneed myself in the face and got tively. performed solidly as well. Some with a time of 1:58.63. First-year a pretty bad nose bleed during Like the men’s team, the wom- of the competition included Di- Dan Burrows (2:03.73) and se- high jump. That was very unfor- en’s 4x400 meter relay ‘A’ team vision I schools such as West nior Kevin Pruzinsky (2:05.69) tunate.” fi nished in third place behind the Virginia University and Division fi nished sixth and eighth, re- First-year Chris Bridgeman West Virginia teams. “I’m excited II schools such as Indiana Uni- spectively. vaulted 3.80 meters to fi nish for our 4x400 in the upcoming versity of Pennsylvania and West In the 1000-meter run, ju- sixth. First-year James Hulley UAA meet because I feel we have Virginia Wesleyan College. nior Drew Miller (2:37.99) and threw for 13.19 meters in the four really strong 400 runners,” On the men’s side, sophomore sophomore Raphael Bertrand shotput for sixth place while ju- Andreozzi said. Brian Harvey broke a school re- (2:44.51) led the team with nior Mike Reggie threw for 14.84 Sophomore Jessica Meng cord by fi nishing fi rst in the one second- and fourth-place fi n- meters in the weight throw for placed seventh in the long jump, mile with a time of 4:18.05. Se- ishes. Sophomores Breck Fresen sixth place as well. The men’s triple jump, and high jump. She nior Geoff Misek (4:32.47) and (9:05.12) and Andrew Freder- 4x400-meter relay ‘A’ team jumped 4.63 meters in the long sophomore Mike Haley (4:38.23) ickson (9:13.16) came in seventh fi nished third behind the West jump, 10.21 meters in the triple fi nished fi fth and seventh, re- and tenth in the 3000-meter run, Virginia relay teams with a time jump, and 1.53 meters in the spectively. respectively. of 3:32.56. high jump. “Breaking the record is Senior Nicholas Bannister fi n- For the women’s team, sopho- “We’re starting to come to- defi nitely a nice indicator of my ished the 60-meter hurdles with more Ashley Bakelmun had a gether,” head coach Dario current fi tness level and helps a time of 8.53. Sophomore Craig strong race fi nishing fi fth in the Donatelli said. “The next two build my confi dence for the rest Hahn followed to fi nish fi fth with 800-meter run with a time of meets, the competition will get of the season,” Harvey said. a time of 9.21. 2:30.55. Senior Jerri Castillo much better. It’ll get us ready for Sophomore sprinter Carlton In the high jump, sophomore (2:34.25) and fi rst-year Danielle UAA, which is what we’re trying Reeves also had a terrifi c day, Colin Marks fi nished fi fth with a Sedlack followed with eight- and to accomplish.” fi nishing fi rst in the 400-meter 1.78-meter jump and senior Eric ninth-place fi nishes, respec- The track and fi eld teams will dash with a time of 53.07. Senior Tang placed eighth with a jump tively. take to the road once again on Russel Verbosky fi nished sixth of 1.65 meters. Tang also fi nished In the 1000-meter run, fi rst- Saturday to compete at Bucknell with a time of 23.55 in the 200- third in the long jump (6.74 me- year Anna Lenhart fi nished University. ATHLETE PROFILE: Leah Feola File Photo Case Western Reserve University and Emory University overpowered the letic Association (UAA) games, basketball, and my older brother reading, it isn’t too bad. women’s basketball team this weekend. with at-home wins against was also an athlete at Carnegie Emory University and Case Mellon, and he really liked it. I T: Do you have any place in Western Reserve University. didn’t come on a recruiting trip particular that you’ve gotten to During this streak, junior guard or anything, but I really like the travel to for basketball that’s a Women’s basketball Leah Feola had some of her top idea of getting to be on a com- favorite? career performances. She was petitive team and going to one F: It’s so nice that we get to also named the Eastern College of the top academic schools in travel so much. Playing alone team loses to UAA foes Athletic Conference co-player the country. is amazing, and then that extra of the week. This week, the Tar- experience of getting to travel game, a personal season-high. tan sat down with Feola to talk T: Any accomplishments you to so many cities every year is by Erin Gagnon The Spartans gained momen- about her success on the court. are particularly proud of? incredible. Chicago is probably Sports Editor tum early, building a 15-point F: Winning the two UAA my favorite, but Boston and St. lead within the fi rst 16 minutes File Photo Tartan: When did you start games [this year] is a big Louis are really nice, too. Plus, After defeating Case Western of the game. Reserve University and Emory Sophomore guard Stacie Full Name: playing basketball? accomplishment. UAA play is next year, we’re planning to go Feola: Well, I’ve always been really competitive, and they’re to a tournament right before University two weeks ago at Aleski tried to rally the Tartans Leah Feola home, Carnegie Mellon’s wom- — scoring seven points during a Age: athletic and really liked sports, hard teams to beat, so winning Christmas in Cancun! So that en’s basketball team traveled to 10–3 run — to end the fi rst half so I started playing in third two of three is exciting. should be a great trip; and then, 20 play these University Athletic trailing by eight points (33–25). Hometown: grade, basically because it was Also, I have had three it’s not for basketball, but I’m go- the only sport available. double-double games, which ing to Ireland for spring break, Association (UAA) foes on their Aleski had 17 points throughout Pittsburgh, Pa. home courts last weekend. The the game. Major/College: is double-digit points and re- so I’m really excited about that. T: Did you plan on playing bounds, so that’s something I’m Tartans came up short, losing to Carnegie Mellon continued Policy & Management/ even when you got to college? kind of proud of. T: What are your favorite Case 76–59 and Emory 77–55. its comeback in the second H&SS F: Defi nitely. I also played things to do to relax when you On Friday in Cleveland, the half when a three-pointer by volleyball in high school, but T: How do you manage to have the extra time? Tartans were unable to maintain sophomore guard Colleen Light I really wanted to play basket- balance your time with basket- F: Well, hanging out with my their two-game winning streak pulled the Tartans to within one by Christina Collura ball. It was actually part of my ball and your academic course friends, sleeping, just watching as Case (9–10, 1–7) defeated point of Case (39–38) with 15 Staffwriter decision when I was choosing load? TV, things like that that every- Carnegie Mellon. minutes left on the clock. But schools. F: Planning a schedule and one does, and shopping. I love Junior guard Leah Feola Case responded with a 20–7 So far, the Carnegie Mellon staying on top of things is really shopping, especially jewelry, opened the game with a layup surge to bring the score to 59–45 women’s basketball team has T: So the team was part of key. It can be a little bit of a chal- that’s really my weakness. I in the second minute of play, but with just seven minutes left to had a mixed season. Within the your decision to come to Carn- lenge sometimes, but really, if I defi nitely raided the Tri-Delta it was the last time the Tartans play. last two weeks, the team has egie Mellon? keep track of everything and jewelry sale last week; I loved would hold a point advantage Case never looked back, scor- won two of four University Ath- F: I defi nitely wanted to play don’t fall behind in work and that. throughout the game. Feola scored 20 points during the See WOMEN, page A9 images of The New Pittsburgh Courier

inside: DDionysiansionysians ddoo SStudenttudent pperformerserformers OOnn sstage:tage: BBugsugs ofof iitt bbetteretter aarere ‘Alive‘Alive andand bbiblicaliblical pproportionsroportions DDancing!’ancing!’ 002.05.072.05.07 VVolumeolume 101,101, IssueIssue 1414 4912by Patrick Pettibonby Laura Thorén by Luke Krzyzanowski ...this week only 4 Galactic When this jazz-inspired band performed at Mr. Small’s, Dionysian revelry ensued.

5 Quartet Last Monday, Brahms met Schoenberg, and the results were pleasing to the ear.

6 Museums Read about two new exhibits that feature scientific illustrations and Japanese woodblock prints.

8 Deep Sea Johnny Depp narrates the high seas (no mascara necessary) in a new IMAX film.

9 Dance 10 Prepare yourself for “Alive and Dancing!”, coming to campus February 11.

4 6 8 13

12 Theater ...regulars Two new plays came out last week: The Skin of Our Teeth and Bug.

Advice 3 13 Movies Find some love in time for Valentine’s Day, Check out reviews of the top five movies of and, until then, try and get some shut-eye. 2006, and ones to look forward to in 2007.

Paperhouse 5 14 Big Al The song to end all songs has arrived: “Cost,” Read the tale of one man’s intoxicated journey to by Bloodyminded. a Vancouver Kiss concert.

Dollar Movie 9 Sacha Baron Cohen? Very nice! How much? Also: The OH in Ohio comes up anticlimactic. ...feature

Comics 15 10 Courier So says All Hail the Jon, practice makes A new exhibit features historic photographs perfect. That is, unless you’re a doctor. from The New Pittsburgh Courier.

PUBLISHER Shawn Wertz MANAGING EDITOR Liz Schwartz PILLBOX EDITOR Sarah Mogin ASSISTANT PILLBOX EDITOR Matt Siffert COMICS EDITOR Diego Bauzá PHOTO EDITOR Justin Brown ART EDITOR Dave Kjos COPY MANAGER Matt Campbell LAYOUT MANAGER Ariane Simon CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Michelle Bova CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Greg Hanneman CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Evan Sundwick CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Bradford L. Yankiver COVER Jimi Okelana

The Tartan . Box 1017 . Carnegie Mellon University . Pittsburgh, PA 15289-1017 . www.thetartan.org . © 2007 The Tartan ...this week only 4 Galactic When this jazz-inspired band performed at Mr. Small’s, Dionysian revelry ensued.

5 Quartet Last Monday, Brahms met Schoenberg, and the results were pleasing to the ear.

6 Museums Read about two new exhibits that feature scientific illustrations and Japanese woodblock prints.

8 Deep Sea Johnny Depp narrates the high seas (no mascara necessary) in a new IMAX film.

9 Dance 10 Prepare yourself for “Alive and Dancing!”, coming to campus February 11.

4 6 8 13

12 Theater ...regulars Two new plays came out last week: The Skin of Our Teeth and Bug.

Advice 3 13 Movies Find some love in time for Valentine’s Day, Check out reviews of the top five movies of and, until then, try and get some shut-eye. 2006, and ones to look forward to in 2007.

Paperhouse 5 14 Big Al The song to end all songs has arrived: “Cost,” Read the tale of one man’s intoxicated journey to by Bloodyminded. a Vancouver Kiss concert.

Dollar Movie 9 Sacha Baron Cohen? Very nice! How much? Also: The OH in Ohio comes up anticlimactic. ...feature

Comics 15 10 Courier So says All Hail the Jon, practice makes A new exhibit features historic photographs perfect. That is, unless you’re a doctor. from The New Pittsburgh Courier.

PUBLISHER Shawn Wertz MANAGING EDITOR Liz Schwartz PILLBOX EDITOR Sarah Mogin ASSISTANT PILLBOX EDITOR Matt Siffert COMICS EDITOR Diego Bauzá PHOTO EDITOR Justin Brown ART EDITOR Dave Kjos COPY MANAGER Matt Campbell LAYOUT MANAGER Ariane Simon CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Michelle Bova CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Greg Hanneman CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Evan Sundwick CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Bradford L. Yankiver COVER Jimi Okelana

The Tartan . Box 1017 . Carnegie Mellon University . Pittsburgh, PA 15289-1017 . www.thetartan.org . © 2007 The Tartan Who needs vocals? Last Wednesday at Mr. Small’s, Galactic proved that even a band without a lead singer can put on an exciting show.

Courtesy of www.bighassle.com Dionysians do it better At Mr. Small’s, Galactic goes Greek It’s pretty amazing that the Greeks could coin a term those 21 and older. You have to be of age to get in, but once led a few. Herbie Hancock, Thelonius Monk, and Count Basie thousands of years ago that so aptly describes an exciting you’re in, it’s revelry at its finest. are some of the greatest bandleaders in history, and they all show like Galactic’s. Performing last Wednesday at Mr. played the piano. Herbie Mann even led some while playing Small’s Theatre, the band demonstrated what we might call Besides the strong liquors, the music also proved a factor for the flute. Dionysian revelry. intoxication. Galactic is a powerful group, and its members play together with precision. Each instrument adds a new When faced with New Orleans jazz-inspired funk rock, Though we share dance as a common link to our ancient level of intensity to the final product, and when they add the uncontrolled convulsions are inevitable. One young lady at the friends, one advantage we do have over the Greeks is saxophone, the melody is driven by the ensemble. Center show was dancing so wildly that she kept hitting people in electricity. We carry on their traditions of song, dance, stage Ben Ellman sings through his horns. the face as they walked by; it seemed to be a typical reaction and communal drinking, but they could not have even to the music. dreamed of their lyre becoming an electric guitar or their The leader of a rock and roll band must either play the guitar flute transforming into a baritone saxophone. Furthermore, or sing or do both, right? Well, not if the band is Galactic. Dionysian revelry such as Wednesday night’s has a few because we have electricity, we can synchronize our lights There are a number of reasons why this band defies most obvious benefits for society. Besides reconnecting those with the rhythms of the songs, and we have total control conventional rock and roll wisdom. present with the natural forces of the Earth, it may also lead to over the shapes and colors they produce. Instead of dancing procreation of the species. Hot chick bassist Cass Ferguson, around the fire and singing together, we cheer before the First of all, the band’s singer, Theryl DeClouet, left two years who plays with Papa Mali, demonstrated this effect when she electric glow of the performers onstage. ago. Galactic has since continued as an instrumental quintet. joined Galactic onstage — pounding out hardcore bass lines None of the band members — not keyboardist Rich Vogel, and gyrating sexily. She captivated the audience, and may Before Galactic took the stage, opening performer Papa Mali drummer Stanton Moore, or bassist Robert Mercurio — sing have indirectly encouraged the use of the free condoms that advised the crowd in song to “Drink a little beer/ drink a little in this band. Guitarist Jeff Raines also doesn’t sing, and he were distributed. wine/ Smoke a little kind/ Gotta keep you happy.” stands to the side when he plays. Ellman doesn’t sing or play guitar, but rather plays saxophones and harmonicas. Patrick Pettibon | Staffwriter Papa Mali’s lines apply directly to the show, the venue, the audience, and possibly even the performers themselves. Mr. All of this shouldn’t seem too strange. After all, a lot of bands Small’s Theatre is a place where the beer flows like wine and have been led by instrument players. John Coltrane had a smoke fills the air. Not surprising, the show was restricted to few bands of his own. Playing the trumpet, Miles Davis also

music 4 pillbox 02.05.07 Carnegie Hall hosts Artemis Quartet Paperhouse Schoenberg vindicated, Brahms rediscovered On Bloodyminded’s ‘Cost’

Bloodyminded is a Chicago music collective often associated with Last Monday night at Carnegie Hall, the young Berlin- Schoenberg’s quartet, however, is so chromatic and “noise” music. With roughly a dozen high-quality releases under based Artemis Quartet performed Brahms’ “String the counterpoint so dense that it stretches tonality to its belt since 1996, Bloodyminded has many recordings worthy of Quartet No. 3” and Schoenberg’s “Quartet in d minor.” the breaking point, creating music that is very tense columns in “Paperhouse.” However, since I am writing this article, I The Artemis Quartet gave Brahms’ third quartet an and complex. The ending of the piece (which is around will focus on my personal favorite song by Bloodyminded. opportunity to step out of the shadow of the composer’s 45 minutes in duration) is magical: The music finally earlier two quartets and shine. The Artemis Quartet’s cadences, or feels like it comes to a resting point or The song is titled “Cost,” and it can be found on Bloodyminded’s luminous, intelligent, and expressive performance conclusion. The leading tone and the resolution occur debut release Trophy. The song has a simple structure, as do vindicated the Schoenberg work, “Quartet in d minor,” about as high as can be played on a violin. The piece many songs by Bloodyminded. A grating, digital-sounding drone which early audiences had scorned, as a masterpiece ends strongly tonal with peaceful, consonant chords. rings throughout the two minutes and 13 seconds; it acts as a sort that is both complex and emotional. of backdrop for a shouted poem, which begins a few seconds The Artemis Quartet succeeded in bringing out into the song. Vocalist Mark Solotroff delivers his lyrics with Brahms’ third and final quartet is often overshadowed the powerful emotion and romantic harmonies in incredible conviction. The lyrics establish a sort of second-person by his earlier, more serious quartets. The third quartet is Schoenberg’s quartet. The Artemis quartet also monologue in which the singer seems to be yelling at another a lighter work. Eckart Runge, the cellist of the Artemis brought out Schoenberg’s incredible string writing. The person. However, as one delves into the lyrical framework, it Quartet, described the quartet as having “a spring-like harmonic notes (very high-pitched notes produced by becomes quite clear that Solotroff is proposing a situation that is quality that [the collection of] other Brahms [quartets] gently putting the finger on a string rather than pressing distinctly not of this plane of reality. doesn’t have.” down) had a tone that was ethereal. Solotroff begins by demanding an unnamed person to get into a The third and fourth movements of Brahms’ quartet are After the Schoenberg piece finished, and a moment of car. The person (apparently some sort of prostitute) assumedly fine examples of counterpoint, the interplay and equality stunned silence had elapsed, the people in the audience obeys, and the rest of the song proceeds as a sort of one-sided of the four independent instruments, which is a major broke out in massive applause and rose to their feet: conversation. At one point, Solotroff yells, “Here’s the turnoff / Too element of quartet writing. The different instruments They had loved the performance — and the piece, bad you’ll be TURNED OFF / First by my idea of fun / And then, trade the melody, giving it a different character, an which perhaps delighted the members of the Artemis FOR GOOD.” Solotroff concludes by yelling “GET OUT. GET OUT!” emotional inflection, and a sense of journey. The Quartet the most. Schoenberg, met with confusion and He then repeats the lyrical content in its entirety with added stress. Artemis Quartet excelled in characterizing Brahms’ disdain by audiences at the premiere of the quartet in melodies, which were by turns wistful, joyful, serious, 1907, now received the appreciation that he deserved When one listens to the song there is nothing else. The rest of and light-hearted. The Artemis Quartet’s performance — it just came 100 years later. the universe recedes and only “Cost” remains. It recognizes and of the quartet amounted to masterful story-telling in engages the listener with the use of a spoken language, yet then music. With Schoenberg’s music, particularly the atonal pieces immediately proposes an impossible human existence. I predict that follow his first quartet, performers and listeners that if the entire world’s population was forced to listen to this song During a pre-concert discussion, Artemis Quartet violist alike must work to get at the strong emotion in the at suffi cient volume for three full days and nights, it would cause Volker Jacobsen addressed the risks of programming work, tonal or not. For this concert, the Artemis Quartet all nations to collapse. All confl icts would cease and all men and the music of Schoenberg. “As you know,” he said, did the bulk of the work, leaving the audience to enjoy women would no longer have need for shelter or technology of “Schoenberg is still a dangerous name.” Though the music. Perhaps audiences will realize that, with a any sort. Even within the context of all recorded sound, the song Jacobsen admitted that audiences are usually a little bit of effort, they can find the feeling present in even the stands in a class of its own. With the recording of the Trophy smaller when the Artemis Quartet plays Schoenberg, most challenging modern music. album, and especially “Cost,” Bloodyminded has achieved an the group’s searing and virtuosic performance of his first extremely unique and informative form of human expression quartet more than justified its selection. — one that all humans and perhaps even certain animals can Matthew E. Campbell | Copy Manager benefi t from experiencing. Schoenberg’s “String Quartet in d minor” had a disastrous premier in 1907. In 1937, Schoenberg John Eastridge | Special to the Tartan wrote that he “was primarily regarded as the Satan of modernistic music” after its debut. However, the Artemis Quartet’s performance showed the quartet to be a terse, concentrated work that is very complex but full of roiling, powerful emotion. top 10 on WRCT 88.3 FM Schoenberg composed the first string quartet when he was still writing music in the vein of Richard Wagner, most played albums of the last week known for his grandiose operas; among them, Tristan and Isolde. This was before Schoenberg adopted the 1 Thrift Store Cowboys — Lay Low While Crawling or Creeping 12-tone system and abandoned tonality altogether. In 2 Junior Wells — Live at Theresa’s choosing to program Brahms and Schoenberg in the 3 Various Artists — Kompakt Total 7 same concert, the Artemis Quartet hoped to bridge 4 Tortoise — A Lazarus Taxon the gap between the romanticism of Brahms and the 5 Sloan — Never Hear the End of It late-romanticism of Schoenberg and demonstrate 6 Joanna Newsom — Ys that the two composers had a lot in common. 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music pillbox 02.05.07 5 Cynthia Morton, curator of botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, demonstrates the distinctions between invasive and endangered plants. The scientific illustrations serve as a useful tool for exposing visitors to a variety of specimens.

Jim Kubicek | Photo Staff Jim Kubicek | Photo Staff Where art meets science Carnegie Museum of Natural History offers educational illustrations

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is packed with paleontology department. Klingler, who began volunteering viewers react as if his animals were alive: when, for example, wonders: fossilized mammoths on the fi rst fl oor, carefully at the museum when he was a student in Carnegie Mellon’s children beg their parents to get them a hadrocodium wui preserved dioramas of African animals on the second, and graphic design program, explained that a science illustrator — a 195 million-year-old, paperclip-sized mouse — for a pet. exquisitely detailed watercolors on the third. Why is a plays a dual role. “As an artist, you’re trying to do homage watercolor exhibit hobnobbing with fossils instead of the to your specimen,” he said, “but when your project is Klingler has always been interested in science and has been Monets and Cézannes next door? The exhibit, Backyard complete, it has a life of its own.” Klingler sees art as a way raising moths and butterfl ies since he was a child; his eyes lit Invasion, showcases work of the New York chapter of of “preserving a piece of history”; unlike photographs, art up as he described a rare ghost moth he is rearing in a potato. the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI), whose “conveys a concept — the speed of a peregrine or the delicacy He was lucky enough to fi nd a way to combine his love of illustrations portray invasive and endangered plant species of of a butterfl y.” The science illustrator’s job, Klingler said, is science with his love of art at the museum. Although full- Pennsylvania. The fi eld of science illustration is one of the few to “accurately depict or interpret the natural world for future time jobs as a science illustrator are rare, Klingler encourages realms where science and art come together. generations.” Science illustrators’ work is the only image anyone interested in science and art to look into science we have of extinct species such as dinosaurs and passenger illustration. On display until July 1, the exhibit includes around 20 plates pigeons, and soon — if invasive plants have their way — it in various media, including watercolor, colored pencil, and may be all we will have left of many of Pennsylvania’s native The Phipps Conservatory offers classes in botanical silverpoint (a method of drawing with a stick of silver which species. illustration; other local resources include the Pittsburgh looks like graphite but is so much cooler) depicting native Society of Illustrators (pittsburghillustrators.org), the Pennsylvania plants and the invasive exotics from Europe As an illustrator in the museum’s paleontology department, Allegheny Highlands chapter of the American Society of and Asia that are wiping them out. Cynthia Morton, curator Klingler produces reconstructions of ancient animals millions Botanical Artists (http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/ASBA/) and of botany at the museum and biology professor at Carnegie of years old. His illustrations have been featured on stamps, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, located on the Mellon, remarked on a painting of an innocent-looking rose. posters, and the cover of Science magazine. Starting with fi fth fl oor of Hunt Library. GNSI’s Joan Lee was encouraging, “This is the bad guy,” she warned, pointing out the fringed fragments of fossilized skeletons, he reconstructs the critters’ too — science illustration, she wrote, “can be learned by just bracts (hairy growths) at the base of the plants’ stalks that muscles, skin, and fur (or scales), basing his reconstructions about anyone with the motivation to do it.” distinguish the rose from its victims. This kind of attention to of these unknown features on living descendants. In an offi ce detail is one of the hallmarks of a skilled science illustrator. crammed with fossils, models, reference books, drawings, feathers, and scientifi c journals, he fl ipped through a fi le on a Selena Beckman-Harned | Junior Staffwriter Science illustrators depict the natural world in painstaking new project, a reconstruction of an ornithopod (a herbivorous detail. “We are technicians, NOT artists,” GNSI member Joan dinosaur once common in North America). The folder was For the scientifi c side of the Backyard Invasion exhibit, see Lee stated in an e-mail. “We like to make things beautiful, but crammed with sketches of fossils covered with notes in red Sarah Mogin’s article in SciTech. accuracy is paramount, and beauty, if achieved at all, is a by- ink, photographs of crocodiles and birds, and preliminary product of scientifi c illustration.” Science illustrators may love drawings. These kinds of projects give visitors a mental art, but their fi rst responsibility is to science. concept of animals they will never see, Klingler said, “giving a face to an idea.” Although he uses a computer to render One of the exhibit’s contributing artists, Mark Klingler, certain effects, Klingler prefers the freedom of a paintbrush works as a science illustrator with the museum’s vertebrate and pencil. He knows an illustration has succeeded when culture 6 pillbox 02.05.07 Kôgyo prints tell stories at the Frick New exhibit depicts actors of Japanese Noh theater Tsukioka Kôgyo was, by profession, an artist. You will see his as lions dance through a fi eld of fl owers against a plush red whatever parts he wanted to be colored, he would next need work hanging on the walls of the Frick Art Museum, just like backdrop. “Hajitomi” shows a pale actress inside a lattice to carve out new blocks, color them to his liking, and align Hubert Robert and Matteo di Giovanni. But deep in his work shutter with a pine tree swaying in the background. them perfectly with the print. It is only when you see this lay traces of both a historian and a theater critic. Kôgyo’s process that you appreciate the sheer quantity of high-quality feature exhibit, The Prints of Tsukioka Kôgyo, is an in-depth The visuals of Kôgyo’s work undoubtedly pull the viewer in, works that Kôgyo produced. exploration of a Japanese art form called Noh theater, which but it is the fabulous stories behind the art that hold your has been an integral part of the country’s culture since the interest. (After all, a museum-goer can only take so many Though the Frick is a ways from campus (and hard to reach 14th century. works by the same artist in a single style, be it Kôgyo or by bus), Kôgyo’s woodblocks justify the trip. His work is not Warhol.) In “Kamawa,” the heroine wears a headdress with only engaging and informative — it is also an eye-opening Upon the centralization of power in Japan in the late 19th three candles and a kimono in an attempt to turn into an evil glimpse of a part of Japanese history that is, as Hall pointed century, the structure of the government was beginning demon and take revenge against her unfaithful husband. out, “older than Shakespeare.” to take a formal shape. But this wasn’t the only aspect of Although “Senju” is a simple portrait of a peaceful-looking girl, Japanese culture that was shifting; also evolving was the the story is more involved — and tragic. A boy and girl meet, general way of life. “Things were changing quickly,” said play music together, and become friends. After pledging Matt Siffert | Assistant Pillbox Editor Sarah Hall, curator to the exhibit. But with this growth, there never to forget his wonderful day, the boy is sentenced to was also “a movement to preserve Japanese history and execution because he is a prisoner of war. culture.” Both Noh theater and Kôgyo’s work were part of this preservation and restoration. Through works like these, Kôgyo taps into the psychological undercurrents of daily life. In “Dôjôji,” two prints sit side by The Noh theater was a “collection of old tales infl uenced side; one is of a woman calmly entering a dojo (a training Also at the Frick by both Shinto and Buddhist philosophies,” said Hall. The facility) to visit her husband, who has cheated on her. The plot lines were neither intricate nor fantastical, but had an background is a simple white, her dress quaint and her white infectious — in Hall’s words — “simplicity and discipline” in mask basic. The other print is impossibly macabre, with a For those looking to check out the exhibit during the style. And even though the plays progressed slowly by nature, black background and the same woman dressed as a demon week, there is a concert at the Frick Art Museum on Hall says that Noh theater had exciting musical components; seeking revenge on her husband. Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m. The concert, titled chorus chants, fl utes, and drums all crept into the experience. “Song of the Bamboo Pine,” features koto player And just when the breadth of characters, stories, and ideas Masayo Ishigure. The koto is a soothing traditional Although Kôgyo had no part in writing the stories himself, begins to overwhelm, the museum gives the exhibit an extra Japanese stringed instrument. Also playing are James a visit to the Kôgyo exhibit is far from a fi eld trip for an art kick with the addition of a woodblock in the center of one of Nyoaraku Schlefer on shakuhachi (a Japanese bamboo history class. For one thing, Kôgyo’s woodblock images the rooms. The centerpiece shows a woodblock as a work in flute), and another koto player, Charles Wei-Ting Tang. of Japanese fi gures are lively in action, rich in color, and progress, and explains in full detail Kôgyo’s process of making The elegant theater at the Frick is a choice location engaging in composition. a fi nished product. Kôgyo’s work was diffi cult, requiring for live music, especially when it runs parallel to a meticulous attention. visiting exhibit. Next Tuesday’s concert should do well Almost all of the images in the exhibit are images of Noh to complement Tsukioka Kôgyo’s images of Japan and theater actors dressed as warriors and motherly fi gures He would begin by drawing a study in ink for his print. Then, Noh theater. or masked as dragons and lions. “The visual effects are he would carve the image onto a woodblock, leaving behind astonishing,” Hall said. In “Shakkyô,” two actors masked only the parts of the picture which were going to be black. For

Kôgyo’s prints, inspired by the stories of Japanese Noh theater, involved extraordi- nary effort; for each color, the artist had to carve a distinct woodblock.

Courtesy of the Frick Art Museum Courtesy of the Frick Art Museum

culture pillbox 01.29.07 7 The giant Pacific octopus can alter both its color and texture to blend in with the environment.

Courtesy of www.imax.com/deepsea Deep blue sea, great big screen Science center’s IMAX hosts underwater documentary

Since the 2004 release of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, with a speckled white face. Viewers also meet the giant “The filmmakers have put a number of spins on [the movie],” it is no longer uncommon to find documentaries gracing Pacific octopus, which has tentacles that can stretch up to 20 said Frank Mancuso, Carnegie Science Center presenter and the screens of your local cineplex instead of moldering away feet across and can change its color and texture to match its production assistant. Deep Sea does have a bit of an agenda: on forgotten library shelves. Films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and surroundings. to demonstrate to viewers that the ocean is a delicate habitat March of the Penguins not only made it to movie theaters, subject to disruption by humans. “We’re taking more from but were largely successful. But the best way to watch any Deep Sea examines the interrelatedness of underwater life, the ocean than it can give,” Depp narrates, citing alarming documentary is still on the biggest screen of all: the IMAX with a focus on the predatory and symbiotic relationships statistics about the number of big fish that are disappearing screen. between creatures. A gigantic fried egg jellyfish, named for from the ocean due to shark-killing and over-fishing. However, its curious resemblance to the breakfast food, preys on smaller the didactic tone is only a small part of the movie, which Deep Sea is the newest IMAX film playing at the Carnegie jellyfish by trapping them in its far-reaching tentacles. The focuses more broadly on the diversity of underwater life. Science Center’s Rangos Omnimax Theater. Following 10-inch mantis shrimp defends itself against the octopus, its another recent trend in documentary-making, Deep Sea is natural predator, by raising itself on its hind legs and hitting The Rangos Omnimax Theater screen is an impressive four narrated by two highly recognizable names: Johnny Depp the octopus with claws as fast as a .22-caliber bullet. Green stories tall. Both the size of the screen and the theater’s 64 and Kate Winslet. The movie explores the deepest parts of the sea turtles and reef fish, however, share a much more peaceful speakers make watching Deep Sea at the Rangos Omnimax ocean to find unique undersea creatures living in their natural and charming relationship. Algae accumulations on the sea an incredible experience. The underwater creatures are habitat. turtles’ shells can slow them down, so the turtles visit reefs magnified on the screen and allow the audience to see where fish flock to eat the algae: a “healthy vegetarian feast,” even the most minute details of the deep-sea setting and Deep Sea’s ocean inhabitants are not your average according to Depp’s narration. inhabitants. The theater is certainly appropriate for capturing hammerhead sharks or humpback whales. Instead, the movie the vastness of ocean life. follows some lesser known, yet incredibly impressive, ocean The movie is visually stunning, thanks to its director, Howard animals. Directed by Howard Hall and produced by Toni Hall, who is a celebrated underwater cinematographer. Deep Sea is playing at the Carnegie Science Center until May Myers and Michele Hall, the film is interesting from start to In Myers’ words, Deep Sea is “a vivid illustration of the and is supplemented with a program called UnderSea Alive!, finish. astonishing array of the diversity of life.” Wielding 1200- which educates visitors about animal adaptations. Tickets pound cameras, divers went to incredible lengths to find the for Deep Sea cost $8 and can be purchased at the Carnegie “Our goal is really to take you on a magical journey captivating footage. The film is rife with alluring seascapes Science Center, online at www.CarnegieScienceCenter.org, underwater to places that most of us have never been,” of gently swaying tube anemones (that look very much like or by calling 412.237.3400. Getting to the Carnegie Science Myers stated in a press release. “Even with a large number of palm trees) and multicolored coral reefs. In one of Deep Sea’s Center by bus takes about 40 minutes and requires taking the people who do scuba dive, lots of them have never met these most aesthetically astounding moments, the audience sees 500 inbound and transferring to the 16A outbound. characters or seen how they interact with other animals.” a frenzy of electrically colorful squids attacking anything and One of Deep Sea’s uncommon creatures is the wolf-eel, everything — including other squids and, at one point, the Kelly Cahill | Forum Editor which has “a face only a mother could love,” according to camera itself. Changing color several times a second, the Winslet’s narration. Chomping on urchins with quivering squids make for a dazzling light show against the background jowls, the wolf-eel looks something like a grumpy old man of the very dark ocean water.

movies 8 pillbox 02.05.07 Student performers are ‘Alive and Dancing!’ Expect to stand and clap for an upcoming show based on Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’

St. Petersburg, 1970. Alvin Ailey’s performance of his own very sourceful choreography, I knew I had to somehow pay which symbolizes baptism. The movements are fl uid and choreography earned him a standing ovation lasting over tribute to him for what he did for me that night.” Hopper aerobic. The fi nal segment is a period of living and joy, after 20 minutes. On Sunday, “Alive and Dancing!” — a Carnegie and codirector Kara Lindsay, also a senior music theater the dancers’ souls have been cleansed. The performers Mellon dance production featuring Ailey’s piece “Revelations” major, have been running rehearsals with the production’s wear vibrant colors and dance in a high-energy, athletic — is sure to evoke a similar response. 23 dancers since October. Although most of the performers style. Hopper emphasized that what separates Ailey’s work are from the School of Drama, the performance includes one from that of other choreographers is his ability to tell a story “Revelations” is a piece of choreography created by Ailey student from H&SS and Crystal Williams, a junior in the entirely through dance. “We’re actors,” he said. “That’s why in 1961. The dance refl ects Ailey’s childhood experiences School of Music, who will be singing a spiritual. this ballet is really perfect for actors to perform. There is a growing up as an African-American in Texas and Los story to tell in every movement.” Angeles, as well as the African-American struggle from the Traditionally, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and time of slavery to the civil rights movement. The production, his company consisted entirely of African-American dancers, “Alive and Dancing!” will open with introductions by which has been performed all over the world, is said to but today both “Revelations” and Ailey’s dance school feature Elizabeth Bradley, the head of the School of Drama, and stir such emotions in its audience that the performance performers of all races. “It is no longer black and white Jennifer Church, the dean of Student Affairs. The two often ends with its viewers standing and cheering, even in anymore,” Hopper said. “[The dance] is so beautiful and has performances, at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., will take place in Rangos countries where this form of appreciation is not the custom, so much emotion; everyone is accepted.” Ballroom 1 and 2 in the University Center. Tickets are $5 for as noted in an article from austin360.com. students. “The original choreography was specifi cally about Ailey’s This kind of emotional reaction is what inspired senior music black roots,” Lindsay said, “[but ‘Revelations’ is a ballet] that theater major Antwayn Hopper to adapt Ailey’s choreography everyone and anyone can relate to; its about what we’re all Laura Thorén | Staffwriter and create “Alive and Dancing!” going through. It’s about humanity.”

“In eighth grade I went to an Alvin Ailey camp in Kansas “Revelations” consists of several different chapters, the fi rst City, where I fi rst saw ‘Revelations,’ ” Hopper said. “I was in being the time of pilgrims and slaves, when the dancers awe. When I heard those spirituals and then saw the words perform in brown and tan costumes. In the next segment, and actions come to life before my eyes with his simple, but titled “Take Me to the Water,” the dancers wear white,

dollarmovie Michelle Bova | Contributing Editor

The Rock Ondskan Borat Fearless The OH in Ohio Wednesday, February 7 Thursday, February 8 Friday, February 9 Saturday, February 10 Sunday, February 11 10 12:30 8 10 12 8 10 12 8 10 12 8 10 12

Nick Cage: I’ll try my best. You might know this movie Sigh. Borat is supposedly rip- There’s a man. And a sword. And The movie may be about orgasms Sean Connery: Try your best? better by the title Evil. Sounds roaringly hilarious and one of his martial arts badassery. The but this is no Pirates. The rather Losers always try their best. cheerful. Sounds... Swedish! the fi ner comedies of the year. man is Jet Li. The fi lm is Fearless. cliched idea of a woman who cannot Winners go home and f&%k the In Sweden, a boy transfers to Sacha Baron Cohen plays a If you think you need to know achieve an orgasm with the man prom queen. a fancy prep school and fi nds man from Kazakhstan who about the plot, think again. It’s she loves serves as the premise out that all the upperclassmen goes to America to make fun of probably great anyway, so don’t for this fi lm. I can’t see this getting If you like saucy Sean Connery enforce strict obedience upon people. Or let them make fun sweat it. Apparently, Fearless much better when the frustrated in fast-paced action fl icks, then the younger students and turn of themselves. An hour and a is based on a true story — but man in her life begins to have an this movie is for you. If you like to violence when crossed. Hey... half of watching other people honestly, listen up: Huo (Jet Li) affair with an 18-year-old. As the crazy and implausible plotlines, that was my high school too! make fools of themselves as they had a dad who didn’t want him fi lm progresses, she fi nds solace then this movie is for you. If So one thing leads to another, converse with a man who’s there to fi ght, but Huo became famous in vibrators and Danny DeVito. you’d prefer not to go home and and eventually the Swedish on false pretenses, what a gas. for it anyway. Then, after Huo kills Supposedly there’s very little actual f&%k the prom queen, maybe boy fi ghts the system and uses You’ll probably feel smarter by a man in a fi ght, his family is slain sex in this fi lm — and yet a lot of you should skip it. The plot: his wit and superior swimming the end of this fi lm. From what in retaliation. Our hero is down overwrought ideas. I mean, it might Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage ability to become the hero of all I’ve heard you’ll also kind of feel and out until a sweet group of be fun. Or you could stay home and have to break into Alcatraz when the little kids, also earning him sad for your country. But you’ll ladies offers him kindness. (I bet masturbate. a bunch of ex-Marines who a spot among other Swedish laugh. there’s one in particular who are hella disgruntled kidnap a legends, like Gunther. wants to bone him. Who’s with tour group that was visiting the me?) Finally, Huo is picked to prison and threaten to unleash battle in a tournament against toxic terrorist gas on L.A. representatives of different styles of fi ghting from all around the world. I wonder who wins.

campus pillbox 02.05.07 9 The New Pittsburgh Courier: a history in images

City-County Building hosts a century of African-American history []by Sarah Mogin | Pillbox Editor

At one time or another, everyone has dreamed of discovering For Rod Doss, editor and publisher of The New Pittsburgh Robert L. Vann of The Pittsburgh Courier, a biography by and unsafe. The situation only worsened as the population following Vann’s death. With Lewis in charge, the paper African-American history. The tradition dates back to 1995, buried treasure. While searching through some old boxes Courier, his favorite photo is a close-up shot of singer Billie Andrew Buni, publications like the Courier, which came of blacks in Pittsburgh continued to grow, rising by nearly reached the height of its popularity. The Courier soon tackled Ashley explained, and the theme varies annually. Past themes in the back of The New Pittsburgh Courier’s offi ce in the Holiday. “There’s a lot to be said about what’s happening out on Saturdays, had trouble keeping up with the white 50 percent between 1910 and 1920, according to Buni. what would become one of its most famous platforms: the include African-American architecture, painting, and fi ber South Side, curator Jim Brewer found what many would here,” explained Doss, appreciative of the Courier’s roots. newspapers’ daily editions. African-American publications Vann stressed the potential benefi ts of a building and loan “Double V” campaign. Starting in 1942, the “V” stood for art (textiles). “The dynamics of this city are unique,” Ashley consider the historical equivalent of buried treasure: 750,000 One of the original African-American newspapers, at its typically included news items concerning social and church association for African-Americans. victory, at home and overseas. added, commenting on the increasingly diverse community of photographs from the Courier’s archives, depicting nearly a peak the Courier covered national and even global news events, but avoiding political issues. They were a voice, but Pittsburgh. century’s worth of African-American politics, personalities, — using Pittsburgh as an anchor, not a boundary. “There not yet one that needed to be heard. As for potential readers, “A lot of things were going on back then,” said Michele The “Double V” campaign demanded equality for the black and culture. are about four or fi ve [newspapers] older than us,” Doss said. many African-Americans were either too proud or too Jackson-Washington, deputy executive director of the soldiers fi ghting in World War II. The Courier printed pictures, “Photography is images,” Brewer said. “And images penetrate “We are perhaps the most prominent.” humble to invest in the Courier. Some felt themselves above Housing Authority. “[Vann] felt the need for African- letters, and articles; it even developed a custom insignia and educate.” Staring at the exhibit, it’s hard to imagine so “It was — in a word — like a perpetual super-high,” the black press, which was always struggling to Americans to have a newspaper that refl ected them.” Though — two interlocking Vs — to help promote its cause. Probably many of its photographs hidden undiscovered in a stack of Brewer said. “Every photo has got a story, or multiple fi nd enough money and content to print. Moreover, the exhibit is entitled Pittsburgh Courier Images, many of the most powerful technique was the use of reporters abroad. cardboard boxes. The City-County Building’s walls could not stories, to go with it.” Right now, these stories are many blacks were illiterate. Others couldn’t its pictures also come from the Housing Authority, which “Signifi cant coverage was given to black soldiers by way of go bare; the Courier’s legacy could not go unappreciated. being told in the lobby of the City-County Building, afford to spend money on a luxury such as the has an archive of about 2000 photographs. “The majority of foreign correspondents,” Doss said. Both victories were fi nally Once a treasure is uncovered, it can’t be reburied. host to over 80 images from the archives of both the newspaper. the photos are from the Hill District,” Jackson-Washington attained in 1948, when President Truman signed an executive Courier and the Housing Authority of the City of explained. “There’s a lot of vibrant history.” order banning the segregation of troops. Located downtown on Grant Avenue between Forbes and Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Courier Images, which had its “Every photo has got a story, or To attract a greater audience, The Pittsburgh Fifth, the Pittsburgh Courier Images exhibit at the City- opening reception last Thursday evening, will remain Courier took a risk; it bragged. The editors Still concerned with living conditions, Vann pushed content The paper became The New Pittsburgh Courier in 1965, Country Building is an easy bus ride from campus. on display through the end of the month. multiple stories, to go with it.”,, stretched the truth to make the publication seem in the Courier that addressed the inaccessibility of medical when it was bought by John Sengstacke, who owned more popular than it was. According to Buni’s care to African-Americans. Often sleeping in rooms with four another historic black publication, The Chicago Defender. Brewer’s discovery came in 1995, but even 12 years Jim Brewer biography of Vann, the Courier added a masthead or fi ve inhabitants, blacks were the most likely to get sick, and Prior to the name change, the paper’s infl uence had been later, his fi ndings continue to provide a seemingly claiming a weekly readership of 10,000 African- yet the least likely to get help; at that time, hospitals rarely waning since Lewis’ death in 1948. Now, Doss explained, the endless supply of photographs. It’s out of this ‘‘ Americans, which might have been admitted black patients. Vann used the Courier as a platform Courier is working to regain some ground. “We continue to wealth of options that Brewer, curator to the Images true — that is, counting roughly 75 percent of to encourage the construction of an African-American go where our community is and seek out the news that fi ts archives, must choose the content of exhibits such as this Though the Courier grew to be monumental, it had a humble that number as readers borrowing editions that others had hospital. Neither the building and loan association nor the them best,” he said. “We have new challenges, obviously,” one, featuring fewer than 100 images out of the thousands start in 1907. The Courier began as a literary pamphlet bought. Additionally, after mailing copies of the paper to hospital was ever constructed, but Vann’s forthright ideas Doss said, speaking of the Internet. Like all newspapers, the and thousands available. produced by security guard Edwin Harleston, who used it friends in other states, staff members were so bold as to — and the conviction behind them — succeeded in catching Courier is struggling to adjust to a more global readership. to share his poetry and other writings. Originally called The pronounce the Courier a national publication. the attention of blacks across the country. Last Thursday night, Doss and others were able to browse “There’s a whole lot of choices,” Brewer said. “We try to do Pittsburgh Courier, the endeavor expanded to include news almost a century’s worth of photography, representing the a balance.” It would be easy to hone in on a specifi c group articles by 1910, though in the beginning, at least half of the It wasn’t too long until the Courier no longer needed to “You’re talking about a time when the mainstream media distinguished past of The Pittsburgh Courier. of subjects: black athletes, politicians, or entertainers, for content was taken without credit from other publications. exaggerate its successes; the newspaper gained momentum wasn’t that interested in talking about black people,” said example. But the collection is more powerful when boasting That same year, attorney Robert L. Vann took over as the as Vann brought important issues into the publication. Kevin Amos, a program coordinator for Citiparks. “At one Duane Ashley, the director of Citiparks, considered the Opposite: In the arms of one of his godmothers, Thurgood a diverse selection of 20th-century faces, Brewer explained. Courier’s primary editor. Primarily, the Courier condemned the housing situation in time, it was distributed all over the world.” At its peak, the opening of Images the beginning of another successful Marshall Jr. is christened in New York City outside of the The exhibit features photographs of major-leaguer Jackie the Hill District. The Hill District was home to the majority Courier offered 21 editions in cities all over the country. celebration of Black History Month. “This is an annual Saint Philip Protestant Episcopal Church. Below: Rod Doss, Robinson, Supreme Court judge Thurgood Marshall, and In the early 20th century, black newspapers across the of Pittsburgh’s African-Americans, who had no plausible activity for the city of Pittsburgh,” he said. Every year, the the editor and publisher of the Courier, stands in front of actor James Earl Jones, among others. country were struggling to fi nd a readership. According to alternative to living in its worn-down houses, both unclean In 1940, Courier writer Ira Lewis stepped up as editor City-County Building hosts a new display in recognition of the photography exhibit inside the City-County Building.

Courtesy of Citiparks Deren Guler | Assistant Photo Editor feature feature 10 pillbox 02.05.07 pillbox 02.05.07 11 On stage: Bugs of biblical proportions Two local venues host performances of mind-bending plays

Two new plays in Pittsburgh offer thought-provoking stories. excellently; his delivery of “I love you, I’ll see you real soon,” Bug, which opened last Friday in Oakland, slices close to which conveys the perfect mix of sincerity and threat, is the heart and may not be for everyone. On the other hand, especially convincing. Jordan, also the play’s producer, had Thorton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth is truly timeless. seen Bug when it appeared in New York. “I was laughing Somehow, the same issues that are featured in a play written at parts and the woman next to me was appalled at me in 1942 apply to contemporary history: global warming, moral laughing.... [Bug] has a very different effect on the audience.” corruption, and the war on terror. The Skin of Our Teeth Bug Close by at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, another production is Bug — a dark comedy and sci-fi thriller — is not for the running until February 11. The Skin of Our Teeth, put on by squeamish. Written by Tracy Letts (Man from Nebraska, the Conservatory Theatre Company of Point Park University, Killer Joe) and directed by Shannon Cochran, the play is set features a cast entirely made up of students. Earning himself to run through February 18, at the former site of the Upstage a Pulitzer Prize, Thornton Wilder wrote the play in 1942, Nightclub (on Forbes Avenue). when the world was still embroiled in war. The complexity of the play cannot be understated. The themes discussed The action takes place in the motel room of Agnes White are cleverly interspersed through anachronisms, as the Bible (Lissa Brennan), a divorced and lonely cocktail waitress meets the Ice Age, not to mention modern warfare. At the whose mannerisms, accent, and intellect scream white trash time it came out, The Skin of Our Teeth was an experimental America. An equal opportunity substance abuser, Agnes work, during which its actors broke their characters to is introduced by her lesbian biker friend RC (Miki Johnson) address the audience directly. to Peter (Patrick Jordan), an attractive drifter but delusional schizophrenic who ends up spending the night on the floor. The Skin of Our Teeth features the Antrobus family, whose RC foreshadows, “Ted Bundy was good looking.” characters are based on the Biblical figures of Adam, Eve, Cain, and an absent (murdered) Abel. Mr. Antrobus (Erik Offstage at the beginning of Act II, Peter, still the nice guy, Cheski) is the innovative inventor of the wheel, lever, reenters the motel room with breakfast in hand, only to and other historical inaccuracies, which pepper the play come across a crying and bleeding Agnes at the feet of Goss throughout its entirety. He vacillates between hope and (David Cabot), Agnes’s ex-con ex-husband who shows up, despair during the course of events, which include three apparently in violation of his parole, to impose on Agnes and threats to the existence of human civilization: an ice age, a take her money. flood of biblical proportions (featuring Noah’s Ark), and war. Mrs. Antrobus (Sarah Bordenet) serves as the foundation of Following the beating, Agnes and Peter reveal their pasts the family and is almost a Stepford wife, strongly advocating to each other, growing closer all the while. The emotional pre-sexual revolution morals and proper family values. Filling openness quickly degenerates into Peter’s paranoid tales the leading role is Sabina (Lindsay Schramm), who is actually of abduction (maybe even by aliens from Ogo) and medical two characters: in Acts I and III, a sassy maid of the Antrobus experimentation led by his army superiors and their household in Excelsior (ever upwards), N.J., with a Chicken government sponsors. A nod to the Gulf War Syndrome Little world outlook; and a pageant show seductress in Act II. eventually turns into a conspiracy theorist’s dream of mind- Schramm’s role is perhaps the most complicated, because she control devices. plays both the biblical snake and a member of the family.

The relationship turns to sex — ostensibly love. The following “The play has a timeless quality,” said Joe Scarillo, the stage morning, Peter awakens cursing frantically after being bitten manager. The overall clearest message that one can take by a bug. Agnes abandons all reason and allows Peter to away from The Skin of Our Teeth is to keep a stiff upper lip transform her motel room into an aphid’s worst nightmare when faced with the world’s problems. Questions are raised with bug-zappers and fly ribbons. regarding family relationships and child rearing as Henry (the Cain character played by Jeffrey A. Dudek) becomes Bug plunges into insanity in the final act as Peter, covered increasingly estranged from his family, whose members by his own blood after trying to cut out an implanted sac resent his murder of his brother. of bug eggs and removing his teeth because he believes they are transmitters a la Twelve Monkeys, stabs Dr. Sweet “Anyway, in 100 years it’ll all be the same,” explains Sabina. (the psychiatrist from whom Peter is fleeing, played by Ken Although this may be cynical, The Skin of Our Teeth ends Bolden), and then proceeds to use circular logic to bring an with Sabina challenging the audience to write the story of already-manic Agnes to self-immolation as the pair proceeds humanity. The actors are condemned to reenact history, while to set the entire motel room on fire in an attempt to get rid of hope for change is thrust upon the audience’s shoulders. the bugs.

Bug is not escapist light fare, but a serious play that examines Luke Krzyzanowski | Staffwriter dysfunctional relationships and human weakness. “At the Bug, a dark comedy and core it’s a love story,” said Jordan, who played Peter. The sci-fi thriller, is now playing connection between Agnes and Peter, well executed by at the former site of the Brennan and Jordan, is palpable to the audience. However, Upstage Nightclub. Peter’s schizophrenia could use an added shot of realism in terms of body language. Cabot plays an abusive husband Courtesy of Duane Rieder theater 12 pillbox 02.05.07 Top fi ve fi lms of 2006 Experts weigh in on last year’s movie masterpieces

2006 may not have been the most memorable year in movie- boys. Although, if you are a teenage boy, you’ll love this movie until a sequel emerges. In the meantime, we should start a making history, but hell, it was better than the dreck January for the shots of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, a.k.a. Mystique, half- pool predicting its title. We can’t lie: we’re strongly divided 2007 has been serving us. Come on… Epic Movie? Seriously? naked when she (spoiler!) loses her powers. between Goats on a Boat and Penguins on a … Schmenguin? In order to focus our minds (and feet) on happier times, we’re teaming up yet again — in the midst of awards season no less 3. Happy Feet 1. Little Miss Sunshine — to bring you the five most memorable flicks of 2006. Tap-dancing penguins? When we first heard about the A beauty pageant, a road trip in a yellow Volkswagen bus, 5. John Tucker Must Die movie, we thought it was an actual event. And by we, we and a dysfunctional family: Sounds like standard fare for the mean Tima. Anyways, finding out it was a movie was slightly indie-film market. So how did this movie break out into the One hot guy, three pissed-off girls, and what’s-her-face from disappointing. But upon discovering that the penguins tap to mainstream and bag three Oscar nominations? Perhaps it was American Dreams. Why’s this on our 2006 Most Memorable the greatest hits of the ’80s and the ’90s, we fell in love. The Steve Carell’s oddly serious — yet darkly comedic — role as List? Well, other than the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, girl-on- feeling increased tenfold when Seymour broke out into Grand the gay, suicidal uncle/number one-or-two Proust scholar in girl makeout scene, any movie with the hot gardener from Master Flash’s “The Message.” Besides, who wouldn’t love a the country. Maybe it was Paul Dano’s silent but mesmerizing Desperate Housewives is worth a second look — or a jaw movie where The Matrix’s very own Agent Smith voices the performance as an angsty teenager or Alan Arkin’s role as the dropping stare. You know, if you’re into that sort of thing. hunchback patriarch of the penguin clan? Happy Feet ranks feisty, heroin-loving grandfather. Perhaps it was Little Miss However, if you’re into the emo art boys instead, you’d as one of the most interesting movies of the year. Honestly, we Sunshine herself, Abigail Breslin, who hit the screens as the probably prefer the other Tucker, played by Penn Badgely. just want tap-dancing penguins. most lovable pageant-head since Sandra Bullock. Shut up. We know you love Miss Congeniality too. Regardless of which 4. X-Men III: The Last Stand 2. Snakes on a Plane character tickled your fancy, the ensemble cast and brilliant script are reminders of why we remain enthralled by motion So being a superhero is hard work. But now there’s a cure. We’ve been over this before. Ophidians invade an aircraft. picture magic. X3 asks the long-standing question: Given the chance, would Samuel L. is a badass. Kenan Thompson is also present, you change what makes you you? We walked out of the movie despite our wishes that he’d just stayed home with Kel. wondering about that. Sure, it’s based on a comic book, but The sounds of Cobra Starship rocked your world. What else Pratima Neti | Staffwriter that doesn’t mean this movie is just intended for teenage is there to say? I guess we’ll just have to be on tenterhooks Shweta Kumar | Staffwriter

What’s in store for 2007? Lucky for us, January’s dearth of lovable Even if it doesn’t, it’s bound to have some movies isn’t par for the 2007 course. After awesome action scenes, especially scouring the Internet, we’ve found that the when the monster Grendel is attacked upcoming year is flinging more than a few by Beowulf, our beloved hero. Also, cinematic thrills our way. Our fan squeals Hrothgar’s a pretty kickass name. cannot be suppressed. No lies. If you’ve read Harry Potter and the Order One of the hallmarks of this year is of the Phoenix, you have to be excited sure to be the number of three-quels about this. It should be chock-full of hitting theaters. We can look forward to amazing special effects, not to mention Spiderman 3 (keywords: revenge, black big-screen renditions of some of kiddie spidey suit), Shrek 3 (more Puss in Boots!), lit’s vilest villains and saddest offings. Ocean’s Thirteen (eye candy that appeals to everyone), Pirates of the Caribbean: At Also on the horizon are standard Will World’s End (better be better than Dead Ferrell offerings (Blades of Glory), a Steve Man’s Chest), and Rush Hour 3 (ugh). Carell comedy (Bruce Almighty’s sequel Evan Almighty), another superhero flick Speaking of the number tres: Expect (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer), 300, based on Frank Miller’s graphic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Halo, and novel of the infamous 480 BCE Battle of Transformers. Whew! Thermopylae, 300 has an incredible trailer and has generated quite a bit of early What we’re trying to say is: Next semester, buzz. Shweta will be happy as long as it’s McConomy will rock our couch-potato- more accurate than Troy. movie-watching-popcorn-eating-slurpee- guzzling, fuzzy toesocks. Tima never understood Beowulf when she read it in high school, but the movie version will hopefully clear up a few things.

Michael Menchaca | Art Staff

movies pillbox 02.05.07 13 The new Kiss Alive! 1975–2000 boxed set brings back memories of three decades worth of killer concerts — as if you could have forgotten.

Courtesy of www.sfondideldesktop.com Big Al’s Metal Shop Kiss still Alive — seven years later

Just a few weeks ago, I was able to get my ears around we arrived in style to the white elephant that is B.C. Place. To tired after years of touring. Maybe. Mostly, though, I hear the what was supposed to be Kiss’ Alive IV. Recorded at British this day, I don’t know how on earth we made it through those sound of something that I had the privilege of experiencing Columbia Place Stadium in Vancouver on December 31, 1999, air-lock doors, and I especially don’t know how we convinced that I’ll cherish forever. Seven years later, Vancouver is a this was to be the show to end all shows — as the world’s a couple of young ladies to get us on the fl oor, but we did. thriving metal and rock town. Shows that we had to hop on computers screens went blank and chaos enveloped us. What Most baffl ing, however, is how we were able to stand the 30 I-5 down to Seattle to catch now come up north, and we have better way to enter that uncertainty than with Gene, Paul, minutes or so of Nickleback, the opening act. Yes, I know that not one but two metal radio shows on the air. Combine that Peter, and Ace? We bought the T-shirts, and all we needed they are Canadian, but we have been apologizing for that for with a metal-only record shop and the result is something that afterwards as proof was hearing ourselves screaming on the the last decade, so lay off. we could only imagine growing up. Venues have reopened aforementioned CD. Sadly, as with all projects, there is the risk and the city is becoming fun again — perhaps you can blame that things get shelved, and perhaps ignored, as time passes. Anyway, as the chants of “KISS KISS KISS” grew louder, the a little of that on Kiss. You too can hear this album, along with But for those of us there, it was a magical night that won’t be lights dimmed, and the video montage began. Reaching the other Alive albums as part of the new Kiss Alive! 1975– forgotten anytime soon. back to the early days, the footage showed the band’s fi rst 2000 box set, which is now available. appearances on stage, a fresh, puppy-faced Paul Stanley, Vancouver was a sleepy town, afraid of its own shadow ever pointing into the camera much as he does now. With sense- Before I go, I’ve had a lot of fun these last fi ve years in since the Stanley Cup riots of ’94. Public festivals and events rattling explosions, Kiss came out to “Psycho Circus,” and Pittsburgh writing for you — I have a feeling that also were canceled or just picked up and left due to the restrictions immediately afterwards launched into “Shout it out Loud” and may come to a close as I look to fi nish my doctorate here. in keeping with this fear of mass violence and revelry. Pretty “Deuce.” Anybody who I’ve had the pleasure of knowing can Wherever I go next, I’ll always take a piece of this town along much the only fun we had during that decade was watching tell you that one beer and I’m out — imagine what fl ash pots, with Metropol, Rock Jungle, the Rex Theater, the Palace in the World Cup together on Commercial Drive, but that’s lasers, and loud fi rebombs did to a half a bottle of J.D. Greensburg, Starlake Pavillion, and the sorely missed Club another story. Making things worse, the radio stations were Laga. Please keep the live scene here going — tons of shows boring due to Canadian content regulations and our music Awesome, considering the classic Kiss lineup and I’m are coming up like Mastodon/Priestess at the Rex on February scene struggled with venue closings. All this left us: the rock guessing at least 30,000 fellow Kiss Army members 9 and Unearth on February 14. And while you’re at it, buy a fans who couldn’t stand to hear another Sarah Maclachlan surrounding us. Just as cool was watching Ace handle ’80s T-shirt and feed the band! song on the “rock stations.” You can only deny someone their Kiss amazingly, with “Lick it Up”, my favourite tune of that birthright for so long — and although we had to wait until period, reborn in his hands. “I Love it Loud,” “Love Gun,” and Cheers, the close of the century for a spectacle like Kiss’s millennium the surprising (to me) “Black Diamond” all rocked, but then all show, it also gave us hope that the coming years would be good things must come to an end. As the fi nal strains of “Rock Al more fun. And we were right. and Roll All Nite” rang in my head the next two hours, all I could remember was the feeling of completion — that way That night, I remember stumbling toward the cavernous you feel after knowing that something good just happened Al Cohen | Senior Pillbox Staff dome with my good friend to the end, Sudeep Bala. The and that something even better may be on its way. best shows, as I’ve written before, are the ones where the atmosphere outside the venue is as tense as the backup Listening to the album now, seven years after, I can maybe singers coughing up backstage. With an empty bottle of Jack, hear the strains of a band at the end of its reunion, or maybe music 14 pillbox 02.05.07 All Hail the Jon by Jon Samuels [email protected]

Sounds Good To Me Interrobang by Rachel Berkowitz rberkowi@andrew by Selena Beckman-Harned sbeckman@andrew

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comics pillbox 02.05.07 15 Horoscopes aries So, it appears that this “winter” thing is in full force. Remember to stay Comics of the Past: December mar. 21–apr.19 warm by wearing layers, eating hot meals, and getting plenty of rest. Of course, you can always just stay in bed and miss all your classes, but that might be detrimental to that whole “education” thing you keep hearing about. December 4, 2000 December 3, 2001 December 9, 2002 11:45 by Ed Ryan taurus Things will probably start to get a bit stressful this week with the first apr. 20–may 20 round of tests and papers coming. Just try to think of singing bananas for a quick pick-me-up. Also, I probably shouldn’t say this, but I’m pretty sure the answer for #2 is 2307.2.

gemini Let’s make a deal. You’ll get uplifting, positive, and just generally happy may 21–jun. 21 horoscopes for the rest of the semester if whenever you see a Tartan on the floor you’ll pick it up. It’s not only cleaning up campus, but it’s also a good way to stretch.

cancer It’s getting harder to see what the stars are saying about you, seeing jun. 22–jul. 22 how it’s been grey for a month. In any case, I’m sure a combination of good and bad things will happen depending on how you look at it.

leo Time to get excited! The highlight of the new month will happen early jul. 23–aug. 22 when you see a blimp! No seriously, it’s going to be so awesome!

virgo Let’s just get it out of the way early. Valentine’s Day is coming, and yes, aug. 23–sept.22 you’re right in your assumption that no one is actually looking forward to it. Make your own holiday with that special someone by buying all the same sort of gifts on the 15th instead. Hurray markdowns!

libra It might seem early, but seniors can already smell graduation in the air. Unfortunately, right now it just reminds them of waiting to hear back sept. 23–oct.22 from graduate schools and all those damn interviews. Happy times. December 6, 2004 December 5, 2005 WTF! by Josh Atlas and Jon Bordsky IMF Diary by Robert Kaminski rkaminsk@andrew scorpio First things first: relax. Take a good deep breath. There’s a good chance oct. 23–nov. 21 no one saw that. Just start walking away. Count to 10, and if you still feel nervous about it, just start laughing maniacally.

Interested in submitting? sagittarius Aw! That bunny is so cute! Did you see it? It just ran by here! Oh man, nov. 22–dec. 21 keep your eye out for it because he is just soooooo cute! It’s okay if you Want to have your work published? miss all your classes today; your professor will totally understand. He might even come outside and join you!

Become a part of The Tartan capricorn If someone wearing a long jacket asks you about “the jade monkey,” dec. 22–jan.19 just reply by saying that you haven’t seen it yet, but that walruses sure look funny. If no one asks you about it, then everything is falling into COMICS STAFF place. aquarius There’s a fine line between being committed to something and being contact [email protected] committed to an insane asylum. This week you’ll achieve a better jan. 20–feb. 18 understanding of that statement.

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Diego Bauzá | Comics Editor comics comics 16 pillbox 02.05.07 pillbox 02.05.07 17 Horoscopes aries So, it appears that this “winter” thing is in full force. Remember to stay Comics of the Past: December mar. 21–apr.19 warm by wearing layers, eating hot meals, and getting plenty of rest. Of course, you can always just stay in bed and miss all your classes, but that might be detrimental to that whole “education” thing you keep hearing about. December 4, 2000 December 3, 2001 December 9, 2002 11:45 by Ed Ryan taurus Things will probably start to get a bit stressful this week with the first apr. 20–may 20 round of tests and papers coming. Just try to think of singing bananas for a quick pick-me-up. Also, I probably shouldn’t say this, but I’m pretty sure the answer for #2 is 2307.2.

gemini Let’s make a deal. You’ll get uplifting, positive, and just generally happy may 21–jun. 21 horoscopes for the rest of the semester if whenever you see a Tartan on the floor you’ll pick it up. It’s not only cleaning up campus, but it’s also a good way to stretch.

cancer It’s getting harder to see what the stars are saying about you, seeing jun. 22–jul. 22 how it’s been grey for a month. In any case, I’m sure a combination of good and bad things will happen depending on how you look at it.

leo Time to get excited! The highlight of the new month will happen early jul. 23–aug. 22 when you see a blimp! No seriously, it’s going to be so awesome!

virgo Let’s just get it out of the way early. Valentine’s Day is coming, and yes, aug. 23–sept.22 you’re right in your assumption that no one is actually looking forward to it. Make your own holiday with that special someone by buying all the same sort of gifts on the 15th instead. Hurray markdowns!

libra It might seem early, but seniors can already smell graduation in the air. Unfortunately, right now it just reminds them of waiting to hear back sept. 23–oct.22 from graduate schools and all those damn interviews. Happy times. December 6, 2004 December 5, 2005 WTF! by Josh Atlas and Jon Bordsky IMF Diary by Robert Kaminski rkaminsk@andrew scorpio First things first: relax. Take a good deep breath. There’s a good chance oct. 23–nov. 21 no one saw that. Just start walking away. Count to 10, and if you still feel nervous about it, just start laughing maniacally.

Interested in submitting? sagittarius Aw! That bunny is so cute! Did you see it? It just ran by here! Oh man, nov. 22–dec. 21 keep your eye out for it because he is just soooooo cute! It’s okay if you Want to have your work published? miss all your classes today; your professor will totally understand. He might even come outside and join you!

Become a part of The Tartan capricorn If someone wearing a long jacket asks you about “the jade monkey,” dec. 22–jan.19 just reply by saying that you haven’t seen it yet, but that walruses sure look funny. If no one asks you about it, then everything is falling into COMICS STAFF place. aquarius There’s a fine line between being committed to something and being contact [email protected] committed to an insane asylum. This week you’ll achieve a better jan. 20–feb. 18 understanding of that statement.

pisces Write down some lyrics, or maybe a poem, and keep working on that feb. 19–mar. 20 doodle in your notebook. This will be a good week to express yourself; JOIN NOW just be careful about singing in the shower because shampoo is pretty nasty if swallowed.

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p.m. 412.648.7900. the atmosphere — and alcohol WEDNESDAY street parking space included — inspire your art. Brillobox. 6 in rent, free washer & dryer, p.m. $10. 412.621.4900. summer subletting permitted, bus stop in front, $1830 p/mo + g&e, available May 2007, 412.302.6827, 412.302.2074, Forgotten Legacy of Minjung Ron Jeremy: The Hardest Fantastic Symphony. 941.624.3533 Art Movement. Lecture by (Working) Man In Showbiz. Pittsburgh Youth Symphony research fellow Soyang Park Speech and signing by a Orchestra performs Berlioz’s discusses the movement in veteran of over almost 2000 “Symphonie Fantastique.” 02.08.07 02.09.07 South Korea in the ’80s and adult films. Joseph-Beth 02.10.07 Heinz Hall. 2 p.m, doors open at ’90s. Giant Eagle Auditorium, Booksellers, South Side Works. 1:30 p.m. 412.392.4872. Baker Hall A51. 4:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 412.381.3600. moe. Borders Books & Music, Northway Mall, North Hills. Ben Bagby. Songs from Today, 8 p.m. 412.635.7661. The Meeting. Play depicts a FRIDAY Tennessee Whiskey. Did Beowulf — prepare yourself hypothetical meeting between you get the Facebook invite? for the summer movie. Synod Jamband moe. will be rolling through the North Hills of SATURDAY THURSDAY Martin Luther King, Jr. and Student band performs original Hall, North Craig Street. 8 p.m. Pittsburgh tonight. The band is playing a free show at Borders Malcolm X. Hopkins Auditorium, and covers. Kiva Han, Craig 412.361.2048. in support of its newest album, The Conch. Over the past five Point Park University. 6 p.m. Street. 8–9 p.m. years or so, moe. has undergone a rapid transformation, writing (Play is preceded by reception.) songs that are more accessible to mainstream audiences. The 412.391.4100. group’s melodies are catchier and less quirky than its older material.

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calendar pillbox 02.05.07 19 if you can dodge a wrench...

Jiaqi Tan | Photo Staff ...you can dodge a ball! Friday night, students gathered in Wiegand Gymnasium in the UC to duke it out the old-fashioned way. Here, Kat Fox, a senior majoring in electrical and computer engineering, prepares to serve up some rubber-ball madness.

gallery 20 pillbox 02.05.07 MAKE YOUR MARK A guide to walking away a winner from the EOC

Almost 150 big-name companies are setting up shop Every year the Employment Opportunities on Carnegie Mellon’s campus... Conference brings them here to hire tomor- row’s hotshots. But they don’t want just anyone, they want the best and brightest.

The EOC will be held this Thursday 1–6 p.m in Wiegand Gym and Rangos Hall.

Look good on paper [PAGE C2] Stand apart from the crowd. Take a look in- side our special EOC section as we give you Think you’ve practiced enough? Read our tips and tricks to landing that perfect sum- résumé review tips. mer or post-graduation job. In the hot seat [PAGE C4] Will you be ready? Our interview pointers will help land a job. Dazzling duds [PAGE C7] The way you dress could determine if you walk away with a job offer. C2 THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 O A quick playbook to the OO X XXX EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES CONFERENCE

1) Perfect your résumé 2) Make a gameplan 3) Know what to expect

Your résumé is a single the information on your The career fair is not a like hoovers.com (free on The EOC can be Prepare your introduction piece of paper that page. But be careful; time to learn about a campus) or guidestar.org, intimidating. Be ready. In one smooth sentence, represents you every step don’t go overboard. If you company you’re interested which offer background you should explain who of the way — give it the have any doubt, ask your in. When you step up on companies and non- Take a deep breath you are and why are you attention it deserves. career counselor. to the plate, you should profi ts, respectively. The most important talking to the recruiter already know a lot. thing to remember is that to whom you’ve just The 15-second read Begin to tell your story Make sure to check out this career fair is not a introduced yourself. Your résumé is one of as Your résumé should begin Know the industry the company’s website life-or-death situation. many as 500 résumés to tell a story about who Read up on the industry and fi nd news about them. Keep in mind that in that a recruiting team you are. We say “begin,” you’re interested in so you Also, seek out and talk to In fact, the majority of these initial seconds, the from a top firm is likely because you want to can speak intelligently people who work or have people fi nd jobs by means recruiter will formulate to get this week. Each reveal enough to pique about it. worked for the company to other than a career fair. his or her opinion résumé will get about the reader’s interest get the inside perspective. of you. Most people Especially if it’s your fi rst 15 seconds of attention but save enough of the Magazines, newspapers, fumble through their time visiting a career fair, before it lands in the interesting details for you and websites offer a Know the position introductions, so if you look at the event as a way “yes” pile or the “no” to talk about later. wealth of information Find out all you can about practice, you will stand to meet some interesting pile, so make every word related to different the position so you can out. If you really want to people and learn more count. Leave zero errors industries. make the most of the short nail it, practice aloud with about what sort of job you It’s that simple. Attention time you’ll have with a friends — a little weird, You need to know the are interested in. Format for a quick scan to detail is among the recruiter. but worth a job. Creating a readable most common points in who-what-when-wheres Know where to go document will make a job posting, so don’t of the industry you’re Look into what the Make your work easily When you walk through it less painful for your submit a résumé that will specifi cally interested in: position is like throughout accessible the door, you’ll fi nd recruiter if your résumé is disqualify you. Proofread Who’s important in the the industry, and more yourself in a mess of number 198 for the day. twice. Get a friend to fi eld; what do they do? specifi cally within the Portfolios are professional people, some milling proofread. Get your career What companies have company. How do they ways to present your work uncomfortably about and Break it up into sections: counselor to proofread. what kinds of infl uences in compare? What is the pay to potential employers, education, experience, the industry? When did the like? others confi dently moving like writing and designs. activities, skills, and Customize for the biggest shifts in materials, from booth to booth. interests — use a line company methods, and people take Know yourself A well-assembled You should have a list of or two and show some If you have a diverse set place? Where do crucial Be ready to talk in detail portfolio also includes companies you want to personality. Your goal of interests, like many companies in the fi eld do about your experiences personal blurbs about visit and know where their is to capture the short Carnegie Mellon students, business? related to the job you are each work included. booths are located — use attention span of the you’ll probably be meeting aiming for. What classes the maps on page C8. In these blurbs, you recruiter. Using these with recruiters from a If you know your fi eld, have prepared you for this can tell your potential categories will help you variety of companies. you can chat it up with position? What previous Avoid the long lines employer any challenges cast a broad net, so they’ll the bigwigs — then you’re job experiences have you — wait until the queue you successfully be most likely to identify Consider creating tailored already ahead. had related to the fi eld? dies down if you can. overcame or skills you with something on your résumés for various What did you accomplish Know the company Wait patiently for a free learned through creating résumé. Use indentation, companies that highlight there? Can you support If you know the industry recruiter, then step a specifi c work in your spacing, bold text, and the most relevant aspects your claims about your of your experience. and the company, that’s personality strengths? forward and speak up. portfolio. bullet points to organize even better. Use sites

C4 THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 XX XX OO O How to play it during and after the EOC

4) Act like a professional 6) Follow up graciously

The easiest way to get your weight excessively. blend with their corporate The best way to stay fresh conversations to jog their few days. The phone call recruiters to take you Use your hands calmly culture. A fi rm handshake in the minds of recruiters memories. (Remember the will give you a chance to seriously and remember and naturally as you talk, and direct eye contact is by writing each of them notes you were taking?) solidify the meeting and your name is by presenting keeping them out of your will go a long way toward a letter a few days after Thank them, say you make a second impression yourself professionally. If pockets. You want to helping your case. you talk to them. enjoyed the conversation, — and get a read on what you look sharp, act smart, convey your confi dence and ask to meet again. the recruiters might think and actively seek out by standing and moving Be positive The letter doesn’t have This way, you’ve put your of you. Be confi dent and opportunities, you’ll leave a comfortably. Don’t spend time criticizing to be very fancy, just a foot in the metaphorical proactive in setting up good impression and make your previous employment, brief note reminding them door; complete the the second meeting — it a later interview that much Make contact either. You will probably who you are and where transaction by saying you’ll will probably be your best easier. Don’t give recruiters a be asked about your past you met. Mention your follow up by phone in a chance. dead-fi sh handshake. work experience, and you Hold yourself with poise Nothing spells bad don’t want to answer with Some communication fi rst impression like a a long tirade about how 7) Always be networking experts assert that body limp, fl oppy greeting. your former boss had the The career fairs are great, dressed sharply, on par Before you depart, trade language has the most A handshake can tell IQ of a jar of mayonnaise. but around three-quarters with other guests. Feel free business cards and, if signifi cant effect on the recruiters volumes about It’s better to concentrate of all jobs are won through to have something to drink you’re interested, arrange impression you make when you — how confi dent you on what you learned from networking. Your best bet and some easy-to-eat food. a time on another day to you meet someone. Stand are, how excited you are the experience or how it is to start schmoozing Stack your cup on your continue the conversation. tall, with equal weight on to be talking to them, helped refi ne your long- early. plate and hold a napkin each foot. Avoid shifting and how well you might term employment goals. under the plate. This way Bring it forward Get into the network your right hand is free for a At the end of the night, Career services organizes fi rm shake. review the business cards 5) Ask real questions frequent networking events you’ve collected and that involve both corporate Work the room note the topic of your Ask targeted questions employees should have, Listen and take notes recruiters and Carnegie Have a plan for who you conversation and some Ask about specifi c what the company’s Use good eye contact, nod, Mellon alumni from all want to talk to and get important details about the positions inside the approach to diversity and clarify points you don’t fi elds. to it. Use the general contact to help you start company — this will show is, and what the overall understand to show you’re introduction you practiced up the conversation next recruiters that you’re company atmosphere is actively listening. Attend every networking for the career fair to time. serious enough about like. event you can; the ability Don’t forget to jot notes introduce yourself to the job to have already to network comfortably These are called “tickler Asking good questions down, too. An excellent new people. Ask polite investigated what they and gracefully will make fi les” and are a hugely will help in two ways: way to keep things simple questions and share have to offer. you stand out like nearly successful tool used First of all, you will learn and organized is to collect yourself. Keep good eye no other skill. Practice is by countless business Try to ask focused about the companies a business card from contact; refrain from the only way to learn. You’ll professionals in all questions about what it’s you’re interested in each recruiter you talk to “shopping” for other fi nd that even after you’ve industries. Be sure to actually like to work for the working for, and you will and write notes about the people to meet. Keep a gotten a job, networking thank the host before you company. also impress recruiters company, the job, and the time limit of fi ve to 10 is the most common way leave, so you’ll be invited with your initiative to recruiter on the back. That minutes, and politely leave to score a promotion or to the next gathering. Some good starting points learn. The information way, you’ll have a handy with a pre-prepared exit another job. To make an even better are what an average will be invaluable in your resource to look back on line: “There’s a friend I impression, send a formal work week is like, what interview. later — pre-cataloged and Show up and dive in need to speak with. It was thank-you note. requirements prospective everything. Show up on time and a pleasure to meet you.”

THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 C7 The right attire could help you walk the walk after you talk the talk Employers respond more positively to interviewees who dress up

Men should wear dark suits with Women tend to make the best light-colored shirts and neckties impression by wearing dark suit and matching shoes and belt. jackets with skirts or pants. Also, remember to go easy on the Conservative is key, so also cologne. remember closed-toe shoes.

Open-toe is a no-no C8 THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 5, 2007 Map of Employment Opportunities Conference recruiters

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