Sophia Levin

Class of 2025

Articles

  • ‘Against Carceral Tech’ organizes march, promotes facial recognition ban

    Roughly 60 people gathered in front of “Walking to the Sky” last Monday to protest carceral technology. The march was organized by Against Carceral Tech (ACT), a joint effort between the Coalition Against Predictive Policing (CAPP) and CMU Against ICE. They advocated for a city-wide ban on facial recognition.

    News | October 3, 2022
  • Viral tweet on Queen’s death garners support, criticism

    Dr. Uju Anya is an expert in critical applied linguistics, an associate professor of second language acquisition, and the child and sibling of survivors of genocide. As of Friday, she is also the author of a viral tweet that has since been removed from the platform.

    News | September 12, 2022
  • Class photo raises questions about campus work culture

    First-year students swarmed into four groups on the Cut, their energy zapped after a week of Orientation. “It had been a long day, so nobody was really thinking or worried about” the design, said fine arts first-year Kate Myers. When Carnegie Mellon’s official Instagram page posted the image on August 24, students were surprised to see they had spelled “work,” a heart replacing the “o.”

    News | September 12, 2022
  • Music students want Wind Ensemble to expand canon, diversify repertoire

    Following a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Carnegie Mellon’s school of music promised to rectify the homogeneity of its assigned composers. When students in the Wind Ensemble returned in-person this year, they were excited for the change. The list of 19 composers — all white, 18 men — felt like a far cry from rectification.

    News | May 2, 2022
  • Rwandan government funds CMU, imprisons political dissidents

    Last year, Carnegie Mellon received the final installment in a $95 million deal with the Rwandan government. The partnership developed Africa’s first — and only — fully operational branch campus of a U.S. university. At the 2019 ribbon cutting, Carnegie Mellon president Farnam Jahanian embraced Paul K...

    News | May 2, 2022

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