Skyrocketing tuition: Administration explains education’s price tag
Students, parents, faculty, and staff gathered in Rangos Ballroom for Carnegie Mellon’s annual undergraduate tuition meeting last Tuesday night. Bill...
Freedom of speech, revised
Following extensive research last winter, the Controversial Speakers Policy Committee has finalized its proposal to replace the current controversial...
Student group speaks out on behalf of North Korean refugees
The Carnegie Mellon chapter of Liberation in North Korea (LiNK) promoted North Korea awareness last week by displaying 98 ribbons on the Cut, one for...
Drama student plays Spiderman to boy with leukemia
After a long day of chasing the Green Goblin, Spiderman made his way to the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to pay a special visit to his biggest fan,...
CMU professor Ben Fischer passes away at 92
Ben Fischer, distinguished public service professor of labor studies and public policy at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, died Sunday,...
Statistically Speaking
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday. Later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared it would be held on the fourth...
Crime and Incident
Noise Complaint November 11, 2006 at 1:32 a.m. Woodlawn residents complained of a loud party on Margaret Morrison Street. Police threatened to break...
Students plan holiday service for next week
Community service events abound at Carnegie Mellon for the week after Thanksgiving break (November 27 – December 1). Several of this year’s projects will...
Executive Privilege
At a public park in the Bronx, Toumani straddles a Djembe drum bigger than he is. His head is tilted upward, and his eyes are closed; the pose makes him...