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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Christopher Lessler |Arden Ryan
By Sumukh VenkateshEditorials featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. Is the Highmark Center for us, or just for student athletes? That’s the question that many have about the new $105 million, 160,000 square foot building. After visiting the Highmark Center, here are my thoughts. It isn’t just for athletes, but, for the most part, it is. After entering the Highmark Center, I was shocked by how nice the building was.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Zachary Gelman |Christopher Lessler |Arden Ryan |Courtney VanAuken
Every year at Carnegie Mellon, changes are made to campus, policies, and even to our eateries. This year we have the brand-new Highmark Center, designated bike paths, Shake Smart, and hundreds of new students. All very exciting new developments, although some changes will take longer than others to get used to.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Christopher Lessler |Arden Ryan
There’re a lot of books out there, and plenty of genres too. Even the Carnegie Mellon libraries are filled with books. Beyond the genres, the stacks, the tropes, there are four types of books. There are real fake books, fake real books, fake fake books, and real real books. This will be an explanation of their classification. What is a real real book? This category includes the non-est of non-fiction books.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Courtney VanAuken |Christopher Lessler |Arden Ryan |Nina McCambridge
Editorials featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. There is one thing that I will always hate: confronting my awkward nature. This is something I had to do last weekend when I took a trip to Caliban Book Shop. After browsing through the adorably cramped and cluttered shop, I brought a copy of the book “Crowds and Power” by Elias Canetti to the cash register where an obviously cool bookseller helped check me out.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Kate Myers |Christopher Lessler |Arden Ryan |Courtney VanAuken
Editorials featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. Two weeks ago, my friend Lisa and I took the bus down to the Waterfront AMC to go see one of the most anticipated movie sequels of the year: “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”. (You can read Lisa’s review of the film in last week’s issue of pillbox!) We always get there in time to watch all the previews, and that particular night we decided to turn it into a game.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Christopher Lessler |Arden Ryan |Courtney VanAuken |Nina McCambridge
By Christopher Lessler and Nina McCambridgeOn Wednesday, Sept. 18, CEO of Alphabet and Google, Sundar Pichai, spoke to 1,500 attendees in Carnegie Mellon’s Highmark Center as the first lecture of the 2024–25 President’s Lecture Series. The topic was “The AI Platform Shift and the Opportunity Ahead,” focusing on Google’s AI advances and Pichai’s vision for a future driven by AI.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Arden Ryan |Christopher Lessler |Courtney VanAuken |Nina McCambridge
As the sun beat down on Gesling Stadium on Wednesday, Sept. 11, and “Jump” by Van Halen played over the loudspeakers, a varied group of veterans, Navy midshipmen, and community members jogged around and around the track carrying American flags over their shoulder — 911 rounds, to be precise. In observance of the Sept.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Courtney VanAuken |Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Christopher Lessler
By Courtney VanAukenI frequently have moments of realization that I am studying theatre at my dream university. (It still feels unreal at times and sometimes the degree to which I enjoy Carnegie Mellon makes me feel so incredibly dorky and lame.) Everytime I sit behind a table in a rehearsal room, deliver a presentation, or pick up a new script in class, I feel so secure in the fact that I am exactly where I need to be while reaping so many experiences from my education here.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Nina McCambridge |Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Christopher Lessler
Editorials featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. The presidential debate was unsurprising — still full of lies, still, as any political debate, avoidant. One wishes that some neutral ground of language could be established. Both the candidates and the hosts used such biased language that it often completely obscured their meaning.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
thetartan.org | Christopher Lessler
Every Halloween, the same questions surface: Is eating Halloween candy safe? Should I be checking Halloween candy for signs of tampering? If so, how? The prevalence of these questions is in large part the result of historical and continuing fears about Halloween candy safety. The FDA, for example, recommends only accepting commercially wrapped candies and then searching childrens’ candy for discoloration, pinholes, and tears.
