A weekend of music at Carnegie Mellon
Last year’s Carnival concert left students in the dumps; not only did the poor weather force the show into the disastrous-sounding Wiegand Gymnasium,...
Demetri Martin: A fan’s perspective
Last Thursday at 5 p.m., senior David Rush sat squarely in front of the entrance to Wiegand Gymnasium waiting for the doors to open. The show started...
Big Fun at 'Small Things Made Large'
This year’s Carnival theme, “Small Things Made Large,” became uncannily appropriate in the case of the booth competition. Tiny problems like wind, rain,...
More than just a day at the races
Floating the taco. Superman steering. Bagging the course. King and Queen of the Hill. This weekend, those words floated over the heads of Carnegie Mellon...
What’s in a theme?
Carnival’s most attention-grabbing element, the one hardest to ignore, is Midway. Midway triggers all the senses: There’s the smell of the traditional...
‘Counting on bad weather’
The second day of Carnival dawned unexpectedly sunny, and robot builders across campus cursed the beautiful weather, which threatened to derail the 13th...
Pippin returns to Carnegie Mellon
Carnival weekend was filled with talk of booths and buggy races, but there was another event to get people talking: Scotch ’n’ Soda’s performance of Pippin....
Nine simple steps to succeeding post-Carnival
Your writing sucks. There, I said it. And it’s not because you’re an engineer or in computer science — I simply think that if your name isn’t Faulkner...
Earth Day happened — did you care?
Although one shouldn’t expect the Carnegie Mellon website to have Google-esque illustrations for each holiday, the home page included only one reference...
Everything must go — and you should too
Running through Thursday, April 26, Future Tenant’s Everything Must Go exhibit features the work of six second-year Master of Fine Arts candidates from...
Carnival top fives
Another Carnival, another compilation of top-five lists about the hots and nots of this fabulous weekend — that’s right, we’re seriously channeling Rob...
Tartan Q&A
Is Buggy worth all the hype? Overall no, but it really helps to cure general apathy in our school. —BD Buggy makes me really nervous, and I cry a little...
Philharmonic to perform in Cleveland
On May 3, the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic will travel to Severance Hall (home of the Cleveland Orchestra) in Cleveland, Ohio. The orchestra will play...
Everything you need to know
**Dear Janet, I’m graduating this year, and my boyfriend, who I’ve been dating for about a year, has a year left. Immediately after graduation I’ll be...
Paperhouse
Battles — Mirrored Math rock meets heavy electronics. Battles is simply a powerhouse of talent that manages to somehow put it all together and become...
Did you know?
100 years ago April 24, 1907 The Promenade Committee suggested that the engineering societies select a corner of the dance hall and decorate it with...