Bagless initiative a smart CMU basketball teams face Gallery Crawl samples move by Entropy+ • A8 tough losses • A12 Pittsburgh culture • B8, B9 FORUM SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan January 27, 2014 Volume 108, Issue 15 Students boycott Coca-Cola, battle hate crime Campus Cola and pouring out the company’s products in public reflects protests. Last Sunday, Moriarty and about twenty others poured on MLK out Coca-Cola products — none of which they bought Jr. Day — at the intersection of More- wood and Forbes Avenues. ABBY SMITH Similar protests are slated in Staffwriter the coming weeks at other universities and high schools “Lift every voice and across the country. The next sing, ‘til earth and heaven protest takes place next week ring, ring with the harmo- at Wesleyan University. After nies of Liberty,” chimed the that, protests will take place at audience, led by senior dra- schools such as Boston Univer- ma major Tsilala Graham- sity and St. Michael’s College Haynes in Rangos Hall in in Colchester, Vt. the University Center last Garrett Eucker, a sopho- Monday afternoon. more vocal performance ma- The song, “Lift Every jor, thinks that the campaign Voice and Sing,” considered is trying to send an important by many to be the national message, but might be doing it anthem of African-Ameri- in the wrong way. “I think it’s cans, was used to kick off misleading, saying that people the keynote address by dis- should be blaming Coca-Cola tinguished service professor strictly because Coca-Cola is of social and decision sci- not supporting [LGBT rights] ence and public policy and when it’s really Russia violat- management Dr. Jendayi E. ing civil rights and Coca-Cola Frazer that concluded the is supporting the Olympics, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day not Russia,” Eucker said. Eu- program. cker does agree that if Coca- Carnegie Mellon cel- Photo courtesy of Anything But Coke Cola pulled their sponsorship The Anything But Coke campaign targets Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, and Russia’s anti-gay laws. ebrated Martin Luther King, from the Olympics, it would Jr.’s birthday with classes send an important message to in the morning and perfor- BRIAN TRIMBOLI Although President of Rus- with Jeff Kasinoff, a junior Occupy Pedophilia has been Russia. mances and speeches about News Co-Editor sia Vladimir Putin has prom- at Wesleyan University, kidnapping activists and gay “Coca-Cola is not the vil- diversity and remembering ised that the Winter Olympics co-founded Anything But teens and torturing them and lain. But they do have the King in the afternoon. The 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi will be discrimina- Coke, a campaign to boy- putting videos of the torture power to make real change,” The address featured which begin on Friday, Feb. 7, tion-free in response to back- cott Coca-Cola products to online, and the government Moriarty wrote in an email to two student speakers. Se- will take place in Sochi, Rus- lash about the law, many convince Coca-Cola to pull hasn’t been doing anything The Tartan. “This issue is com- nior electrical and comput- sia. Russia has made waves Americans are worried about its sponsorship of the Sochi about it. Some of the lead- plicated but it doesn’t mean er engineering major Vijay internationally with its harsh gay rights in Russia and gay Olympics. ers have spoken and said that it’s not black and white. We Jayaram delineated King anti-gay policies and laws; American Olympic athletes. “Anything But Coke is an [Occupy Pedophilia] is doing a cannot support corporations as “a man who catalyzed a recently, Russia’s lower house A host of companies spon- online campaign that I start- service for the nation; they’re who put profit before human movement,” “a doer,” and of parliament overwhelmingly sors the Olympic Games, in- ed because of the atrocities basically pouring lighter fluid rights. No matter who is suf- a “drum major for change.” approved a law banning the cluding Coca-Cola, McDon- happening to gay citizens in over the situation.” fering.” Jayaram also focused on distribution of information alds, General Electric, Proctor Russia,” Moriarty said. “Hate Moriarty hopes to send a Coca-Cola is one of many King’s views on education, about homosexuality to chil- and Gamble, and Visa. groups across the country message to Coca-Cola, and dren, according to an article John Moriarty, a sopho- have spiraled out of control. other Olympics sponsors, by from CBS news online. more directing major, along For example, a group called drinking anything but Coca- See OLYMPICS, A3 See CELEBRATION, A3 University offers healthier food options Eight new programs combine design, art, and technology BRIAN TRIMBOLI hundred people — and they News Co-Editor came up with the eight ar- eas of strength that we have Last year, about 100 Carn- at CMU, and a list of courses. egie Mellon faculty sat down We have very good represen- to decide what Carnegie tation from all the colleges; Mellon does best. The list that was the consensus out- was narrowed down to eight come.” discreet categories that have Rikakis wanted the con- become the eight concentra- centrations to have a low tions available in the Integra- barrier of entry, so the portal tive Design, Arts, and Tech- courses, which are prereq- nology Network (IDeATe) uisites to the concentration program. courses, are open to students In this program, students of any major. Portal courses from any academic back- include collaborative, inter- ground can choose from one disciplinary courses, such as of eight interdisciplinary Introduction to Computing concentrations, which in- for Creative Practitioners and clude: animation and special Introduction to Media Syn- effects, entrepreneurship thesis and Analysis. for creative industries, game The portal courses are design, intelligent environ- designed to help ease stu- ment, learning media, media dents from disciplinary back- design, physical computing, grounds into interdisciplin- and sound design. ary work. Introduction to The IDeATe program is Media and Synthesis Analy- Alison Chiu/Advertising Staff, Jon Leung/Photo Editor headed by Thanassis Rikakis, sis, for example, is described The Underground in Morewood Gardens added an Under 500 Calories Menu after student feedback for Dining Services. vice provost for design, arts, on the IDeATe website as and technology, and project “an introduction to basic dergraduate Student Senate healthy option, and I am in- wrote student body vice presi- CHRIS GALVIN manager Kelly Delaney. “If principles for the creation of Staffwriter brought attention to the pop- terested in eating healthy,” dent and junior electrical and you decide that one of these digitally mediated content, ularity of Evgefstos and the said Ade Odutayo, a master’s computer engineering ma- areas is of interest to you, you aimed towards students from In the January 2014 issue demand for extended hours. student in the Tepper School jor Ian Glasner, in an email. go to your advisor and you science and engineering dis- of Dining Dish, Housing and Dining Services responded to of Business. “The food on campus is much say, ‘hey, you know I think I ciplines who have limited Dining Services announced the feedback by extending the “I think [the new hours] healthier than it ever has might be interested in doing exposure to content analysis two important changes to location’s hours until 8 p.m. are better, [and provide] more been.” some interdisciplinary kind and authoring.” The course the healthy food options on Monday through Friday. options,” said senior mechani- The change in The Under- of work,’ ” said Rikakis. “Then will have three modules: the campus: extended hours at “Meeting the needs of our cal engineering major Krys- ground menu was also in- during your sophomore year narrative module, the visual Evgefstos and new healthy vegetarian populations is an tina Calfo. “I usually go to spired by student opinions at you have to pass a portal synthesis module, and the menu options available at The ongoing priority area in cam- Resnik, but now I can come DSAC meetings. course, and once you pass sound synthesis module. All Underground. pus dining since [Evgefstos] here instead.” “Based on student feed- the portal course you have to students in the course will Evgefstos features vegan opened in 2006” wrote Paula Dining Services is continu- back, Dining Services col- take two courses within the complete an additional mod- and vegetarian options not Martin, University Health Ser- ing to try to expand healthy laborated with our vending list of concentrations.” ule — the critical analysis available elsewhere on cam- vices’s registered dietitian, in and vegetarian options on partner at The Underground The list of concentrations module — and then choose pus. The eatery, however, was an email. campus by working with ven- to offer more healthy choices came from a think tank of two of the three remaining not open for dinner during the Students have respond- dor partners to offer more for students, besides the very Carnegie Mellon’s faculty,” modules. fall semester, and was only ed positively to the change vegetarian and vegan dishes popular traditional late night Rikakis said. “We had a By the end of the course, open until 4 p.m. Monday and seem to appreciate the at various dining locations. fare,” wrote Pascal Petter, di- one-year process for this, so according to the IDeATe web- through Friday. increase in healthy dinner “The past three years have rector of Dining Services, in we brought together some site, students will be able