Celebrities favor self-promotion over music production
Celebrities are taking over the world. The evening news is rife with the latest on Nicole Richie’s pregnancy and Britney Spears’s daily train wreck of...
Sandra Lee: Homemade pies or homemade lies?
To the list of things that must, for the sake of mankind, be stopped cold (global climate change, a nuclear North Korea, pre-emptive militarism, the persistent...
Letters to the editor
Intellectual laziness leads to misinterpretation The article “Administration whitewashes ‘threat’ ” in last week’s issue of The Tartan shows an example...
Keep our Social Security numbers secure
In high school, most of us didn’t even know our Social Security numbers, and those of us who did were instructed to keep those precious nine digits under...
Communicating to prevent school tragedies
This past Wednesday, a student at Jokela High School in Finland shot and killed seven students and the principal before also killing himself. Though school...
Students ignore mayoral election
Last week Mayor Luke Ravenstahl was elected and Carnegie Mellon seems not to have noticed. Students, generally, ignored that an election was taking place....
Presidential Perspectives
Hey Tartans. This week we sat down with the Student Dormitory Council (SDC) to bring back the recreational equipment we had on campus at the end of last...