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Fair trade coffee will come to campus — once you ask for it

Fair trade coffee partnerships foster openness and respect between consumers and producers. By helping out small-scale farmers in often underprivileged...

YouTube culture: The greatest thing since sliced bread

Whenever something truly great comes along, you have to wonder: Is it the greatest thing since sliced bread? Sliced bread is pretty awesome. You can toast...

Shepard bill targets hate crimes

It was a cold night in October 1998 when Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson offered University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard a ride home from a...

New FCEs aren’t the right answer

The majority of students at Carnegie Mellon know FCEs to be detailed online questionnaires. FCEs often seem a ponderous task toward the end of the semester,...

Trapped in Pittsburgh

We hope you didn’t really enjoy having US Airways in your life. This past week, Pittsburgh’s largest carrier announced another round of cuts to its service...

Locked out and broke

Last week, Housing and Dining Services announced that it would be charging students for lock-outs by increasing $5 increments after an initial free first...

Alcohol may become even more expensive

Pennsylvania’s Quaker roots have always made purchasing alcohol a chore. There is no alcohol in grocery stores, beer and liquor are sold in separate stores,...

Tackling election inefficiencies so your vote counts

Hey Tartans. Welcome to the second Presidential Perspectives! We’re going to update you, the campus community, on our activities. (That means there’s...

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