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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 | 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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Apr 29, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Arden Ryan |Sam Bates |Courtney VanAuken |Haley Williams
In 1924, the original Skibo Gymnasium opened on the Tech Street hill. Carnegie Mellon’s first basketball game was played in that arena on Feb. 5 of that year against the Pitt Panthers, and for nearly a century, Skibo was Carnegie Mellon’s unairconditioned but beloved home for intercollegiate athletics. After 100 years, that area of campus is being reimagined as a comprehensive space for fitness and well-being, available to all students.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Nina McCambridge |Sam Bates |Courtney VanAuken
Pittsburgh’s bus rapid transit (BRT) University Line project continues, with transit-only travel lanes and street improvements planned between Oakland and Downtown, involving the 61A, 61B, 61D, 71B, and P3 lines. The Tartan spoke with Amy Silbermann, the chief development officer at Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) and a Carnegie Mellon alum (MSPPM ’13).
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Nina McCambridge |Sam Bates |Courtney VanAuken
On April 23, Pennsylvania held its primary elections to determine who will be on the ballot in the November general elections. The presidential results were all but decided at this stage in the cycle, since in both the Democratic and Republican parties any major contestants to the front runner candidates have dropped out. Former president Donald Trump took the state over Nikki Haley with 83 percent of the Republican vote, and President Joe Biden won with 93 percent of the Democratic vote.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Nina McCambridge |Sam Bates |Courtney VanAuken
On March 27, House Bill 777, a regulation of “ghost guns,” passed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The bill would make it a third-degree felony to sell or transfer a part or whole of a “firearm frame or receiver” (whether or not it is operable) without a serial number or a “firearm muffler or silencer frame or receiver” without a serial number. It would be a second-degree felony to purchase these things when not as part of a kit with a serial number.
