Researcher receives science El Gallo de Oro lacks CMU students perform at contribution award • A4 drastic changes • A6 FringeNYC • B8 SCITECH FORUM PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan August 27, 2012 Volume 107, Issue 2 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Bomb Hunt Library gets new layout Wheels on bus to threat keep going round MADELYN GLYMOUR membership ratified it by a News Editor 10-to-one margin, and the suspect reason they ratified it by that The Port Authority an- margin was because of that nounced last Tuesday that the language.” found service reduction planned for Palonis pointed to Allegh- Sept. 2 would be postponed eny County Executive Rich JUSTIN MCGOWN until at least August 2013. Fitzgerald as another pivotal Staffwriter The postponement is the player in the agreement. result of a deal reached by “He really kept our nose The FBI officially in- the Port Authority, Allegh- to the grindstone throughout dicted Adam Stuart Busby eny County, Governor Tom this process,” Palonis said. on Aug. 22 for sending over Corbett’s office, and the Lo- “Rich is an advocate for trans- 40 threatening emails to the cal 85 Amalgamated Transit portation. I’ve dealt with a lot University of Pittsburgh last Union. Under the deal, Port of politicians through this year. Busby’s emails were Authority employees in the process, but Rich really wants part of a series of over 100 Local 85 union will undergo to see transportation grow.” bomb threats issued to Pitt a two-year pay freeze and According to the Pitts- throughout the spring se- increase the percentage of burgh Post-Gazette, Fitzger- mester. Busby, the founder the paychecks paid into their ald is advocating paying the of the Scottish National Lib- pension plans; the state will county’s portion of the agree- eration Army, is currently provide $35 million to Port ment using two sources: the in an Irish prison awaiting Authority during the coming county’s drink tax and the Al- an extradition hearing for year; and Allegheny County legheny Regional Asset Dis- threats he allegedly made Jennifer Coloma/Operations Manager will provide $4.5 million over trict (RAD). The RAD draws about airliners travelling The university is moving reference books out of Hunt Library to make room for a tutoring station. the coming year. its revenue from a 1 percent between London and New The turning point in ne- addition to Pennsylvania’s 6 York City. JENNIFER COLOMA consultation room, a meeting ly performed by a government gotiations, which have been percent sales tax. According to a statement Operations Manager room, more tables and chairs organization. In the U.S., it is ongoing for several months, Carnegie Mellon Student on the FBI’s website, Busby by the back windows, and an done by private membership was the ratification of a new Body President Will Weiner, is indicted on 35 counts: Students looking to study interactive lounge with a flat associations. According to contract between the Port a senior economics and sta- 17 counts of wire fraud, 16 on the first floor of Hunt Li- screen TV. St. Clair, the MSAA “peer re- Authority and the Local 85, tistics and decision science counts of maliciously con- brary this semester may run According to St. Clair, all views” universities every five to which the majority of the double major who lobbied veying false information in into trouble. The area is being of the renovations were re- years or sooner depending on Port Authority’s employees for local transportation in his the form of bomb threats, renovated to make space for a quested or proposed by the how they score and improve. belong. previous role as chair of the and two counts of interna- tutoring station, among other Student Advisory Board, with In its last visit to Carn- “Once the contract was Undergraduate Student Sen- tional extortion. additions. which Hunt Library staff has egie Mellon, St. Clair said ratified, we knew that we ate, is happy about the deal. In addition to the Pitt “I’m very excited,” said been consulting over the past the MSAA suggested that the would be seeing some pretty “The benefits are pretty bomb threats, Busby has Gloriana St. Clair, dean of year. university focus on “student substantial savings from that obvious, especially for our been charged with sending University Libraries. “These The renovations are be- learning outcomes.” contract,” Port Authority graduate student popula- emails in 2010 threatening [renovations] are some things ing made with next year’s “When we were reviewed spokesperson Heather Pharo tion,” Weiner said. “I’m re- to poison water supplies in that we’ve been wanting to Middle State Accreditation by the Middle States Accred- said. “As we have been in dis- ally glad the deal was worked England, and specifically get done for students for quite Agency (MSAA) visit in mind. iting Agency, they gave us a cussions with the state and out, because they utilize a lot Gordon Brown, who was a long time.” The MSAA is an independent very positive review, but they the county as well, the board of the routes that were going prime minister of the Unit- In addition to the tutoring agency that offers accredita- did make a suggestion to us opted to postpone the cuts for to be cut.” ed Kingdom at the time. station, formally known as the tion, or credibility, to institu- that it would be nice if we at least one year ... in order to Since one of Corbett’s ma- The 64-year-old Scottish Global Communications Cen- tions of higher education. were able to tackle this prob- give the state and the county jor demands was union con- nationalist is known mainly ter (GCC), St. Clair said that Outside of the U.S., uni- more time to figure out a cessions, Weiner said the new for his hoaxes; while the the renovations will include a versity accreditation is usual- See HUNT, A2 sustainable plan for funding union contract gives trans- Scottish National Libera- transportation.” portation lobbyists more bar- tion Army has carried out Local 85 President Ste- gaining power in the future. or attempted more overt phen Palonis said that al- “I think it gives our side some acts of terrorism in the past, Preferred name policy updated though the union is not en- more ammunition to say, Busby suffers from multiple tirely happy with the new ‘Look, they’ve made some sclerosis and is bound to a BRENT HEARD name policy, Casalegno said changes. contract, something had to concessions,’ ” Weiner said. wheelchair. Assistant News Editor that working groups spent a She spoke of the residen- be done in order to save local “So it gives us a better posi- “I was not in the least bit large amount of time coding tial benefits of this new pol- transportation. tion to secure a better future surprised [by the charges],” Carnegie Mellon issued an in order to “build the right icy, such as RAs receiving a “It’s a concessionary con- not just for Pittsburgh, but for David Leslie, a retired Scot- update to the preferred name infrastructure, which is part student’s preferred name for tract, that’s for sure,” Palonis the state.” tish reporter who person- guidelines for students this of what took us so long” in door decorations and other said. “Our membership says Weiner said that student ally knows Busby, said in a fall. rolling out the new preferred purposes before the student we have to do our part for government’s future lobby- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette arti- The changes were an- name policy. even arrives. transportation in Allegheny ing efforts, whatever they cle. “His motive is publicity. nounced in an email sent by Junior global studies and Evans also emphasized the County. They have faith in are, will probably be made Busby glories in publicity. Dean of Student Affairs Gina Chinese studies double major role of awareness and educa- us.” through the Pittsburgh Stu- He will target anyone or any Casalegno last Monday. Ac- Colin Meret, the president of tion in achieving greater tol- Palonis said that there dent Government Council. organization that he feels cording to the email, student- ALLIES, an LBGTQ group on erance and understanding of are some caveats in the new “It could manifest itself a will gain him publicity.” specified preferred names campus, said that preferred the transgender community. contract. “If the governor lot of ways. I want to use our Busby’s motive is have been used in all Black- names are often of particular “It’s a step,” Evans said. “But doesn’t come through with a resources and connections unclear. The FBI declined board courses since the sum- concern to transgender stu- it won’t change the hearts and dedicated source of funding with local government before to speculate about his mer semester. The message dents. minds of people.” that can grow, we revert back figuring out what the next reasoning, and Busby has no said that preferred names “Definitely it’s a step in the In addition to the LBGTQ to our previous contract. Our step is,” he said. direct connection to either have now also been added right direction,” Meret said of community, these changes in the university or the city. to Health Services records, the new guidelines. “Obvious- policy may also be pertinent In his interview, Leslie told course photo rosters, and resi- ly, transgender students face to international students, the Post-Gazette that it was dential rosters. many challenges in college.” who often go by a name that likely not a deeply thought- Records for University Meret recalled the steps is not their legal name, or stu- out action, and was possibly Health Services, Counseling his predecessors took to en- dents who for other reasons inspired by the presence of and Psychological Services, courage these changes, say- prefer to be addressed by an a UPMC hospital in Dublin.