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Dec 9, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Katherine Gallardo |Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Sam Bates
[WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD.]I wasn’t sure what to expect when I heard Scotch’n’Soda was producing a play called “Horse Girls,” but I was really curious to see what it was about, so here I am. To provide some context, the production follows the lives of six girls — Ashleigh, Tiffany, Margaret, Brandi, Camille, and Robin — and their pathological obsession with horses. Together, they form the Lady Jean Ladies, a sort of equestrian club through which their love of horses is manifested.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Katherine Gallardo |Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Sam Bates
Finding a job after graduation can be an intimidating process for students, and if you’re an undergraduate chemistry student in Mexico, the job pool is now delving into the illegal. According to a New York Times article, cartels in Mexico are luring undergraduate chemistry students in Mexico to work for them. Their goal: to synthesize precursors. According to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Advisory Board of the United States, precursors are chemicals used to synthesize drugs.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Katherine Gallardo |Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Sam Bates
An is a non-invasive exam that records electrical activity in the brain. Brain cells communicate through electrical impulses. An EEG records the brain’s electrical behavior, which can then be used to detect any abnormalities in the brain that may result from brain tumors, disease, injuries, etc. It is often used to diagnose sleep disorders, epilepsy, and brain injuries. The exam uses small metal discs called electrodes that are attached to the scalp using a wet gel.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Katherine Gallardo |Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Sam Bates
With the holiday season approaching, the Carnegie Mellon University Police Department (CMUPD) once again hosted its annual holiday toy drive. From Nov. 21 through Dec. 9, CMUPD collected new, unwrapped toys for kids at various drop-off locations throughout the Carnegie Mellon campus. This year’s toy drive will serve families in the Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood. The Tartan spoke to Mark Villasenor, a university police sergeant, to learn more about CMUPD’s annual toy drive.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Katherine Gallardo |Zachary Gelman |Kate Myers |Sam Bates
For the first time in over 15 years, Carnegie Mellon’s student government is planning to change the Joint Funding Committee (JFC) budget allocation process and the timeline by which the Committee on Student Organizations (CoSO) re-recognizes student organizations. These changes aim to facilitate the JFC budget request process for student organization officers. The adjustments were voted on unanimously by the Undergraduate Student Senate on Nov.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
the-tartan.org | Zachary Gelman |Katherine Gallardo |Kate Myers |Sam Bates
Carnegie Mellon began its custodial contract with UG2 in January 2023, replacing Aramark, which had been on campus since 2015. This meant custodians at Carnegie Mellon, who are represented by Service International Union local 32BJ, were managed by a new leadership team. Founded in 2012, UG2 is a relative newcomer to the facilities service industry.
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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.
