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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 | 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 | 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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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.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Nina McCambridge |Sam Bates |Courtney VanAuken |Haley Williams
Did you register to vote? Probably not; voting is for old people. Besides, who cares about the primary when the presidential part is already decided? You probably do not care about the Senate, but if you do — the Senate primaries are decided as well.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Cole Skuse |Haley Williams |Sam Bates |Nina McCambridge
Men’s TennisOn Friday, April 12, the 19th-ranked Carnegie Mellon men’s tennis team headed to 30th-ranked Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The Tartans fell short in doubles play, and were behind 3-0 heading into singles play. Senior Nicholas Wernick went 6-1, 6-3 in the fourth singles slot for the first Tartan point of the match. First-year Raghav Jangbahadur earned another Tartan point in first singles, going 6-2, 7-6 (9-7). All the other Tartans lost their singles matches, and the Tartans fell 7-2.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Hailey Cohen |Haley Williams |Sam Bates |Nina McCambridge
On April 23, Pennsylvania will hold its primary elections. The winners of these races will be on the ballot in the November general election. Primary elections determine the options voters face in the fall. This primary, Pittsburgh voters will choose Democrat or Republican candidates to serve as the U.S. president, U.S. representative, state auditor general, state attorney general, state treasurer, and more. College students in Pennsylvania can vote in Pennsylvania.
