David Koggan

Articles

• Relationships@CMU: A look into campus dating culture

  On Valentine’s Day, 475 students attended TartanHacks, Carnegie Mellon University’s largest hackathon. While over half of young adults in America now report no steady romantic partner — up from 33% in 2004 — the opening ceremony emcees at TartanHac...

  News | March 2, 2020
• Judging candidates’ supporters

  On Wednesday’s Democratic debate in Nevada, one moderator asked, “Are Senator Sanders and his supporters making it harder for Democrats to unify?” Somehow the “Bernie Bro,” a pejorative term used to describe Sanders supporters, became a debate-worthy issue in the election — but it shouldn’t be.

  Forum | February 24, 2020
• How media called the Iowa caucuses

  Following the logistical disaster that was election night of the Iowa caucuses, 62 percent of the results finally came in the following day at 4:15 p.m. The most common narrative to emerge was that Pete Buttigieg was leading in Iowa. This was based on a 1.8 percent lead in state ...

  Forum | February 10, 2020
• "I’m miserable and I feel that my life and my energy has been sucked up entirely by CMU:" dealing with loneliness on campus

  Young adults across college campuses are suffering from chronic loneliness, a hidden and often misunderstood condition. A growing body of research has found loneliness to contribute to premature death, one study suggesting loneliness being eqivilent to smoking [smoking 15 cigarettes a day](https://www.inc.com/amy-morin/americas-loneliness-epidemic-is-more-lethal-than-smoking-heres-what-you-can-do-...

  News | November 25, 2019
• Life@CMU report finds campus is indeed stressed out

  During the first-ever Tartan Community Day, students attended a presentation on the results of a multi-year study on personal well-being among the Carnegie Mellon student body, gathering together and enjoying ice cream sandwiches in the Rangos Ballroom. The presentation was given by David Creswell, a professor in Dietrich College’s psychology department and principal investigator for the project t...

  News | October 28, 2019