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Byline: Zachary Gelman Articles featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. It's been a fun ride, y'all. This week, our duo of dynamic duo [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Carnegie Mellon began its custodial contract with UG2 in January 2023, replacing Aramark, which had been on campus since 2015. This meant custodians at Carnegie Mellon, who [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, killing thousands of people living in the area, all of whom would be dead by now anyway. Entire towns, most notably [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman A few weeks ago, I heard someone make an offhand remark about our 'bad football team.' This is pretty far from the truth. The Tartans are a [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman There're a lot of books out there, and plenty of genres too. Even the Carnegie Mellon libraries are filled with books. Beyond the genres, the stacks, the [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman By Zachary Gelman As a bum with no career prospects, I spent this summer up in Maine as a counselor at a camp that I cannot name [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman I have a lot of respect for my TAs, even the bad ones. It's not easy to be the apple of 15 to 25 students' eyes. Plus, [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman The company formerly known as hu.ma.ne -- now Humane -- has begun shipping its flagship project, the Ai Pin. You can buy the Super Matte Black on [...]

Byline: Jacob Gelman On Feb. 22, Brown's Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity invited Jonathan Greenblatt, president of the Anti-Defamation League, to talk about antisemitism in the United States. The [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman I assume that whatever Carnegie Mellon University students used to deal with was pretty atrocious, or else they'd never have pushed Stellic onto us. I'm no stranger [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman On Thursday, I had the pleasure of sitting in on Carnegie Mellon alumnus Manil Suri's 'thesis defense.' Well, it wasn't exactly a thesis defense; that's more of [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman I consider myself to be blessed. I was blessed to be born in the position I was. I have been blessed with professors who give generous late [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman 'Beginning October 14th, 2023, all retail establishments (grocery stores, restaurants, convenience stores, big box stores, etc.) operating within the City of Pittsburgh are prohibited from providing a [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman With September comes falling leaves, gray, and new yinzers that don't know anything about nothing, least of all proper bus etiquette. When you're taking the 61A or [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman A rolling stop turned regular stop Out for the combination Taco Bell Little Caesars Or a sprint to the Walmies with A Dunkin' inside, and more. And [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Congratulations, you have completed your lifetime project! You dedicated between one and 18 years of your life to get into your parents' dream school, and it landed [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman The spotted lanternfly, or Lycorma delicatula if you speak Latin and are also annoying, needs no introduction. The bright-red scourge of the streets and trees has come [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman On August 31 The Tartan was privy to the first roll call and meeting of the 2023-2024 Carnegie Mellon Student Senate. Conversations raged, food was laid, and [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Over summer break, I forsook applying for lucrative Global Studies major internships, instead working at a Maine summer camp that for legal reasons must remain unnamed. Out [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Darkness upon the Atlantic, Pure Darkness. Clouds ascended over the moonless sky, Mariners drift by instinct. Babord swim tentacled monstrosities with magnificancies just beyond reach. Tribord lay [...]

On October 28, 2022, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr). In July 2022, a case of paralytic poliomyelitis resulting from infection with [...]

On August 16, 2022, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (https:llwww.cdc.gov/mmwr). On July 18, 2022, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) [...]

Byline: Mary Ilyushina and Mary Gelman As Russian President Vladimir Putin steers Russia toward becoming a closed-off, conservative society, ruled by 'traditional values' and bound tightly to the Orthodox Church, [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman In a whole semester of news reporting, it was inevitable that some stories receive updates after their initial publication in The Tartan. To end the year, here's [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Stop me if you've heard this one before: 'We don't want you staying up all night, so we've set your assignment due at 9 p.m.' Well, the [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman It's been a week since part one of this investigation was released, and I appear to have become a bit of a celebrity on campus. My wonderful [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Whenever my cool, metropolitan friends take me to parties full of strangers, the third question these strangers ask me is always the same (first question: 'How old [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Tennessee House of Representatives Expulsions On March 30, three days after the mass shooting at Covenant High School in Tennessee, thousands of protestors rallied in the Tennessee [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Protests and strikes have been rocking France for the past few months, with escalating events leading to very publicized fights and injuries. The strikes have been described [...]

Byline: Benjamin Gelman I'm running for Young Alumni Trustee . For those unfamiliar, the YAT is a senior elected by members of the junior and senior classes, as well as [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Dear Doc. Andrew, I am following a noble lineage of advice column contributors. From moms asking Abby why their teenager 'don't like me anymore,' to bored Yale [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman A suite of proposals from the Mayor's office are aimed at targeting complaints raised by renters in Pittsburgh, including our own Edboard on A4. But some of [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman 'Barbarian' has been independently successful, even without any complimentary articles from PILLBOX or our mother newspaper The Tartan. In general, I try to keep my thumb off [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Twiddle your thumbs Wait and wait Take a test, or two Read one whole book, front to back Go and get a snack, hmm... Finish that novel [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman As an accompaniment to the article on the midterms, here is the full interview, edited for legibility: Zachary Gelman: You pretty much predicted they would go almost [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman PILLBOX editors and reporters worked tirelessly to find these five young upstarts that will revolutionize their fields. They are impatient to change the world and get a [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman The Midterms have come, and somehow not gone yet (as of writing this, the House of Representatives is still up for grabs). Democrats are jubilant, Republicans are [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman As you go home for holidays, Knapsack packed to go, Make sure to leave some kindling For the Morewood Fire Man He's lonely without people To bother [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman A new Taylor Swift album has just dropped, and so returns Taylor Swift talk. The college student, only behind the former gifted kid-millennial in Swiftian adoration (mostly [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Robert Crumb has been called many things, and he doesn't seem to let it bother him: a racist (most strongly with his character of Angelfood McSpade) - [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman And we're back. Muppet corner returns for the second part of a two-part feature. We will be analyzing the second side of the one and only 'The [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman It is so hard to be a music critic nowadays. Clocking in to write your required maudlin words about some miserable little work. Your purpose is gone, [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman The AI artists are finally here. No, not Max Headroom style stuttering robots, the real deal. But how did we get here? Let's go all the way [...]

Byline: Benjamin Gelman The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author's views alone. For information on how to submit to the Opinion Section, click here. As each new [...]

Byline: Benjamin Gelman The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author's views alone. For information on how to submit to the Opinion Section, click here. At Princeton, we're [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Muppet Show (album)! - Kermit the Frog The Muppet Show album, entitled 'The Muppet Show,' is a Grammy Award-winning, two-sided, soundtrack album [...]

Byline: Zachary Gelman Last year was interesting for Scobell. Newly furnished with air conditioning units in every room, it was ready for the eighty-something freshmen that entered its four stories [...]

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and nationwide lockdowns forced individuals to transition their everyday, in-person lives to a remote, virtual setting. It was essential for many health care professionals [...]

Byline: Valerie Hopkins and Mary Gelman ABODE OF DAWN, Russia - High on a hilltop bathed in the autumnal colors of pine, birch and larch trees, Aleksei Demidov paused for [...]

ABODE OF DAWN, Russia -- High on a hilltop bathed in the autumnal colors of pine, birch and larch trees, Aleksei Demidov paused for a few minutes of quiet prayer. [...]