Enrollment up, preparation down
The number of students enrolling at four-year universities in the United States has risen 18 percent over the past 10 years, and will continue to rise,...
Displaced students settle in
Three weeks after Hurricane Katrina forced the closing of several universities in and around the city of New Orleans, displaced students from those institutions...
Pennsylvania proposes minimum wage increase
Two weeks ago, Governor Ed Rendell announced his intention to increase the minimum wage of Pennsylvania by making incremental changes from the current...
Economics department moves to Tepper School
?Years of complaining and dissatisfaction from students? have induced a change at Carnegie Mellon, according to Student Services Coordinator of the Undergraduate...
Crime and Incident
Liquor Law 9 September 2005 at 02:39 A 21-year-old man was given alcohol amnesty for an incident that occurred outside of Doherty Hall. The man was...
Statistically Speaking
Pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. in 2003: 805 million Number of people who travel to watch the foliage turn: 350 million Quantity of apples produced...
Executive Privilege
We thought endlessly about the firefighters who rushed into the buildings; I talked with my family about the selfless man who stayed with his wheelchair-bound...
Lecture of the Week
Starting with our issue this week, The Tartan will be running a preview of an upcoming campus lecture every week to two weeks. Our hope is to make students,...