Spring Carnival 2013 Preview: ‘Fractured Fairytales’ Reunions Issue • Section B Midway Map • C8 Carnival Calendar • C15 thetartan.org @thetartan April 15, 2013 Volume 107, Issue 24 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 ‘Thrive at CMU’ to JFC proposes important bylaw changes improve wellness ALVIN MATHEW University Education Council Staffwriter to seek out course instruc- tors. Months after Carnegie “In my personal opinion,” Mellon’s stress culture Town Chaurasia said, “if you went Hall in January, the univer- to the wellness forum about sity and its students are look- the issues CMU students had, ing for ways to address stress the number of students who management and wellness on came showed something had campus. Neha Chaurasia, a to be done.” senior biological sciences ma- The reasons for the at- jor, is designing a new StuCo tendees’ diminishing well- class on wellness for incom- ness were numerous, she ing first-years. pointed out, “and many were The course is currently ti- trying to push it under the tled “Thrive at CMU” and has received approval from the See WELLNESS, A4 Kate Groschner/Photo Editor Student Senate voted on the revisions to the allocation of the student activities fee as part of an effort to clarify the current fiscal process. LAUREN WILLIAMS The changes clarify many align with what was written in As SBVPF, Mark examined Staffwriter fiscal processes and are meant the bylaws. the issues and proposed revi- to increase the transparency Jon Mark, current SBVPF sions. Important changes to the of the JFC, which is the stu- and senior lighting design ma- Senior computer science Student Body Constitution, dent-run organization respon- jor, said, “We’re going to do major and executive cabinet Student Government Fiscal sible for allocating student ac- what we’re supposed to do [at constitutional adviser Ste- Policy, and Joint Funding tivities fee money to Carnegie fiscal close], but you’d rather it phen Tjader then formally Committee (JFC) bylaws were Mellon student organizations. match up with the documents wrote the changes in constitu- passed last Thursday after Previously, what was re- as best as it possibly can.” tional language. being approved by both the quired of the JFC and student Some of the recent changes The executive committee Graduate Student Assembly body vice president for finance have been in discussion since Photo illustration by Greg Hanneman/Staff Photographer (GSA) and Student Senate. (SBVPF) did not necessarily last year. See JFC, A3 Victoria Espinel speaks about intellectual property concerns JUSTIN MCGOWN In terms of career, she offered lawyer to working in telecom- Online Editor several key pieces of advice munications law. Ultimately, to those gathered there. “Do Espinel found herself as an ex- Victoria Espinel, the U.S. things that intimidate you,” pert on copyright issues after Intellectual Property Enforce- Espinel urged students, say- she registered for a semester ment Coordinator for the Ex- ing that she would never have at a school in London where ecutive Office of the President, reached her current position the professor she intended to gave a talk in Hamburg Hall if she had not made career take classes with was on sab- at noon last Thursday as part moves that were not “safe.” batical. Espinel was appointed of the Heinz College Convoca- Students were also advised to to her current position in Sep- tion open forum series. Titled find their own styles and not tember of 2009 by President “Protecting U.S. Intellectual to worry about being credited Obama, and was confirmed by Property: A View from the with work. congress shortly after. Front Lines,” Espinel’s lecture “If you’re building a team,” “Protection of intellec- covered how one manages to Espinel said, “hire people tual property is critical to our wind up in such an obscure better than you, people who economy,” Espinel said, citing yet important position and of- want your job.” She argued former chairman of the Fed- fered a look at the current is- that people after your job will eral Reserve Alan Greenspan’s sues facing the United States be motivated to prove them- claim that the U.S. economy is in the realm of intellectual selves, meanwhile making you currently based more on con- property enforcement. look good so that there will be ceptual goods as opposed to Espinel’s talk was divided a job for you to move on to. physical goods. On a related into two categories: The biog- Those strategies served Es- note, she argued that the trade raphy of her professional life, pinel well as she made her way deficit is not quite so dire as it and what her department is from law school to law school, Photo courtesy of sonicscoop.com currently engaged in doing. going from a job as a securities See ESPINEL, A3 Victoria Espinel spoke as part of the Heinz College convocation lecture series. Influx of university donations continues, now for Scott Hall BRIAN TRIMBOLI mation website about the thropic goals. The endowment lon Foundation — created in This comes in the wake II, in the form of a $265 mil- Assistant News Editor endowment describes it as “a is meant to be self-propelled, 1947 by Richard King Mellon, of the announcement of the lion grant meant to aid in the collection of individual funds accorings to the website. president of Mellon Bank — creation of the Scott Insti- interdisciplinary fusion of lib- Carnegie Mellon’s Wilton established by donors and “Invested wisely, endow- is a trust with assets of over tute in September 2012, cre- eral arts and technical fields E. Scott Institute for Energy managed by the university as ment principal grows while $1.9 billion used for various ated to address a range of that characterizes Carnegie Innovation was recently the environmental issues and to Mellon. beneficiary of a $30 million develop more efficient energy As a result, Carnegie Mel- donation from the Richard solutions. lon’s school of Humanities and King Mellon Foundation. The Richard King Mellon Social Sciences was renamed This donation comes as one Foundation donation is the after his mother, Mariana in a series of recent large do- largest private foundation Brown Dietrich, in 2011. nations the university has re- grant in Carnegie Mellon’s Dietrich — who earned his ceived to sponsor the creation history, breaking the $25 mil- Ph.D. from the University of or maintenance of crucial edu- lion record set in 2007, also Pittsburgh and was on the Pitt cational departments. by the Richard King Mellon Board of Trustees — was also These contributions also Foundation. a longtime Carnegie Mellon follow the fundraising by the The 2007 donation was trustee. Inspire Innovation initiative, invested in initiatives in the Dietrich’s donation is the which raised over $1 billion, life-sciences fields, particu- eighth-largest gift to a univer- exceeding its fundraising goal larly focusing on research and sity nationally and 14th world- for the university. educating future leaders in the wide. The Inspire Innovation field. Dietrich also donated $125 campaign was intended, ac- In addition, part of the million to the University of cording to website, to “in- $25 million was used to start Pittsburgh, eclipsing the for- crease the power and reach of a Life Sciences Competitive- mer highest donation of $41.3 Carnegie Mellon. In practical ness Fund, which supported million in 2007 from Ansys terms, this means building our the hiring of new faculty, founder John Swanson. endowment.” construction of new labs, and Dietrich was president of The money raised is meant establishment of a President Dietrich Industries—one of to be split among several cat- Annette Ko/Art Editor Scholars Fund, according to a the largest manufacturers egories, including “Retaining university press release. of steel framing studs in the and Enhancing a World-Class a set of pooled assets.” the income it generates makes economic, philanthropic, and Although the recent dona- world from 1968 to 1998 — Faculty,” “Supporting a New Practically, this means that possible the investments nec- environmentally beneficialtion from the Richard King according to the Pittsburgh Generation of Student Inno- the endowment is not a lump essary to maintain excellence projects. Mellon Foundation is the larg- Post-Gazette. vators,” “Sustaining a Foun- sum that the university can al- and to seize opportunities that This donation has been al- est private foundation grant Dietrich’s gifts to Carnegie dation of Excellence,” and locate as needed, but is rather might otherwise go elsewhere located to Carnegie Mellon’s in the university’s history, the Mellon and the University of “Enhancing an Innovative En- a set of many funds, coming or be lost entirely.” efforts to expand its initiatives largest donation from an indi- Pittsburgh were granted upon vironment.” from various donors, meant According to their web- toward energy research, edu- vidual was from former steel Carnegie Mellon’s infor- to achieve specific philan- site, the Richard King Mel- cation, and innovation. executive William S. Dietrich See DONATIONS, A3 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » April 15, 2013 FEATURE PHOTO NEWS IN BRIEF Spring Carnival booth building begins CMU students place in Putnam competition A team of three Carnegie Knaster-McWilliams Schol- Mellon students earned fifth ars — a scholarship program place in the Mathematical that allows increased access Association of America’s 73rd to faculty and early research William Lowell Putnam Com- opportunities. petition, ahead of other top “This is the first time in schools including Harvard Carnegie Mellon’s history and Princeton Universities. that the Putnam team placed Last December, 4,277 stu- in the top five for two years dents from 578 universities in a row,” said Po-Shen Loh, participated in the Putnam assistant professor of math- competition, a mathematics ematical sciences and the competition held for Ameri- team’s coach, in a university can and Canadian under- press release.