Gateway to the west: two centuries of blood, paint, stone and steel
Black smoke curls out of chimneys and smokestacks. A constant cloud of dust and coal hovers over factories and tenement houses. War rages, fires blaze,...
Ah, the music of Christians and demons
Described as “nerdy and spazzy” by The Onion, Detholz! — pronounced “Death Holes” — was formed at Wheaton College, a conservative evangelical school from...
Eliot Fisk: Teaching students through experience
Grammy-nominated classical guitarist Eliot Fisk spoke Friday afternoon at Carnegie Mellon as part of the School of Music’s new Charles Boyd Master Class...
Obama's Audacity of Hope
The conventional wisdom in America is that our politicians lie. Barack Obama’s new book, however, is showing that honesty can get you places in American...
Big Al’s Metal Shop
“Yesterday’s got nothing for me...” A few weeks ago, I spoke of a genius who recognized the tribal African roots of metal and reintroduced them to the...
Double the design
Last week, two lectures had the same bottom line: Design matters. Wednesday, in Newell-Simon Hall, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute hosted Jared...
From Forbes to Fifth: campus alternatives
For anyone who has ever complained about Carnegie Mellon’s lack of variety in dining or the overpriced art supplies sold in the UC, Craig Street can be...
Paperhouse
Intellectual property (IP) law has become an increasingly important part of everyday American dialogue and culture during the last 20 years. Piracy in...
Did you know?
100 years ago October 31, 1906 The class of 1906 laid down the law with a series of proclamations aimed at Plebes (first-year students). The rules stated...