SPRING CARNIVAL IS HERE Complete schedule of events, calendar, and map of Midway [C8–9] Reunion Weekend 2011 brings back highlights from past years [Section B] Monday, April 11, 2011 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Volume 105, Issue 24 Students fi ght sex traffi cking The New York Times offers fee discounts JACKSON LANE to a variety of print newspa- Staffwriter pers, including The New York Times. The program is paid In an attempt to adapt to for out of the $5-per-semester a growing online market, The media fee. New York Times newspaper The New York Times is of- is now requiring users pay fering discounts to Carnegie for subscriptions for unlim- Mellon students and faculty ited access to online articles because the university pur- at nytimes.com while simul- chases a qualifying amount taneously offering students of hard copies for its college and faculty members at cer- readership program. tain universities a 50 percent “The New York Times has a discount on subscriptions. longstanding tradition of of- As of last Saturday, Carne- fering educational discounts gie Mellon students can have and working with colleges unlimited access to The New and universities on utiliza- York Times’ website for $1.88 tion of The Times in their per week, billed at $7.50 ev- teaching,” Murphy said. “Of- ery four weeks. Students who fering discounted digital do not purchase digital sub- subscription rates to students scriptions can still access up and others at these colleges to 20 articles per month for and universities is a natural free. outgrowth of that program.” “According to a semiannu- However, there are some al study of national newspa- who predict that only a few per readership by the Student students will take advantage Monitor, the Times reaches of the discount. nearly one in fi ve (18%) U.S. “They’ve likely already fi g- college students during a typ- ured out a way to bypass the Juan Fernandez/Art Staff ical week, which is a much protections that The Times larger percentage than any has put up,” said adjunct as- SARAH ZAKRAJSEK project. commercial sexual traffi cking other American newspaper. sistant professor of English Personnel Manager While most human sex and prostitution each year. It also found that NYTimes. Tom O’Boyle. slaves are sold in South Asian This semester a group of com reaches better than one In addition to The New At this very moment there countries like India, Pakistan, Carnegie Mellon students in fi ve (22%) college students York Times giving certain le- are at least 30 million humans Bangladesh, and Nepal, the has gathered evidence that in a typical week,” said Carn- niencies to articles accessed being traffi cked around in the impact of modern slavery is suggests sex slaves are being egie Mellon Vice President of through search engines like world — more than during not felt only overseas. Accord- exploited in Pittsburgh. The Corporate Communications Google, students can also ac- the height of the trans-Atlan- ing to a conservative estimate students have approached Eileen Murphy via e-mail. cess for free the most recent tic slave trade, according to by the U.S. government, be- Pittsburgh City Council ask- Coincidentally, 85 percent issue of The New York Times the Not For Sale Campaign. tween 14,500 and 17,500 hu- ing for a new city ordinance of the undergraduate voters through Hunt Library’s on- An average slave in the Amer- man slaves are traffi cked into that could regulate one major (comprising 20 percent of line articles database. ican South in 1850 cost the the United States per year; the form of human traffi cking in Carnegie Mellon undergrad- However, O’Boyle believes equivalent of $40,000 in to- National Center for Missing & Pittsburgh out of business. uates) voted last week to con- that few students will even day’s money; today a sex slave Exploited Children estimates The Polaris Project defi nes tinue Carnegie Mellon’s Col- reach the 20 article limit, costs an average of $90, ac- that at least 100,000 Ameri- legiate Readership Program, cording to the Free the Slaves can minors are the victims of See TRAFFICKING, A3 which gives students access See SUBSCRIPTIONS, A3 Group gives students Continued Japan relief efforts color campus SAAKSHI GUPTA service opportunities Junior Staffwriter MEERA LAKHAVANI bring residents and students More than three weeks Junior Staffwriter together. have passed since Japan was Staff members further ex- struck by an earthquake and David Chickering, house- tend their efforts by taking tsunami that also started an fellow of Mudge House dor- measures to increase unity, ongoing nuclear crisis. How- mitory and a resident of such as going door-to-door ever, to exacerbate the coun- Beeler Street, is heavily in- with Carnegie Mellon Police try’s problems, a series of volved with a rising group, to talk with residents. small earthquakes of various the Beeler Street Association. This objective is important magnitudes have since erupt- The main goals of the group to the university, Chickering ed in Japan. The impact of are to increase safety on the said. “There is a delicate bal- the fi rst quake and following street, unify the residents, ance for university students tsunamis was massive, razing and relieve tension between and [permanent] residents. homes to the ground and kill- those who live on Beeler and Carnegie Mellon students ing thousands of citizens. those who host parties on it. need to represent Carnegie Presently, Japan is in need “The Beeler Street As- Mellon well.” of tremendous support and sociation is an opening for Many students agree aid from the world. Carnegie residents and students to with this stance and support Mellon students have already talk.... We want to enable Chickering’s intentions. Mo- begun making efforts to aid them to have more positive hit Moondra, a junior dual the country. Student orga- interactions with each other,” math and economics major nizations have been raising explained Chickering. “The who resides on Beeler, said, money in several novel, yet forum used to be tighter; we “It is important for students successful ways. are trying to take it back to and non-college residents to The International Student Union (ISU) organized a se- ries of soccer matches at Ges- “There is a delicate balance ling Stadium to gather funds for the Japan disaster at the for university students and beginning of the month. Puja Agarwal, a sophomore infor- [permanent] residents. Carnegie Tommy Hofman/Photo Editor mation systems and human- Students spray their hair outside of Doherty to show support for Japan. Mellon students need to computer interaction major, represent Carnegie Mellon well.” spoke about the idea behind the match. istrators also showed their Krystina Teoh and Guillermo the fundraiser, as well as the “We kept the rules pretty sympathy and support, with Gomez, senior and junior me- reaction and support the ISU simple. Teams competed one professors holding events chanical engineering majors, — David Chickering received from students. Agar- by one against each other in and donating money. Profes- respectively tabled outside Mudge House housefellow wal, along with the rest of set groups, and the winners of sor William C. Messner from Doherty Hall and convinced the ISU board, put up posters each match went forward to the department of mechani- many reluctant students to get and Beeler Street resident across dorms and academic the next match, against anoth- cal engineering announced their hair sprayed, assuring buildings announcing the soc- er winning team,” said Agar- that he would donate money them that the colors were not cer matches. The posters read, wal. It was clear that both the for every student who got his permanent. the way it was before.” get along and have mutual “Are you a fan? Come show participants and organizers or her hair spray-dyed at the “Messner holds an event Meetings for the asso- understanding and respect your madness — Support Ja- kept donations as the priority, campus event “Different Color of this kind nearly every year, ciation are held periodically for each other. There defi - pan.” giving less importance to who Hair Day.” except that last time it was for throughout the academic nitely needs to be more inter- The fundraiser involved would be the referees or who Last Wednesday, mechani- Haiti,” Teoh said. year, with discussions about actions between them.” having as many teams par- the ultimate winner would cal engineering students Carnegie Mellon’s dining street expectations, traffi c, However, Chickering said, ticipate as possible, with each be. Agarwal claimed that “the tabled outside Wean and halls have set up boxes asking pedestrian safety, vandalism, “Communication is com- team consisting of seven to best part of the event was Doherty Hall with hair sprays students to donate their spare and destructive behavior on plicated because it is chal- nine players. Every player on seeing the crowd and teams in various colors — from hot change for earthquake relief. the street. lenging to account for all the participating teams con- play on a Friday night for this pink to neon green to spar- Joshua Yee, a fi rst-year The group is promoting students. We try to use fl yers tributed $45. cause.” kling silver. Depending on mechanical engineering ma- a dialogue between all key and mailing lists to the extent “We knew that every- The money raised by ISU the number of participants jor who got his hair sprayed stakeholders. City represen- possible though.” one enjoyed soccer, and we will go to Carnegie Mellon’s who got their hair colored during Messner’s event, was tatives often attend meet- This struggle in com- thought that this would be Japanese Student Association; and signed a sheet, Messner extremely pleased with Carn- ings to address traffi c and munication leaves room for a fun way to raise money,” the money raised collectively donated up to $2 toward tsu- egie Mellon’s efforts to raise pedestrian safety issues, as improvement in the group’s Agarwal said.