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The TartanThe Tartan, formerly known as The Carnegie Tartan, is the original student newspaper of Carnegie Mellon University. Publishing since 1906, it is one of Carnegie Mellon's largest and oldest student organizations. It currently has over 90 student members who contribute on a weekly basis. It is funded by advertisements and the student activities fee. Sections There are two sections in The Tartan. One is a standard broadsheet news section and the other is an entertainment, arts, and living tabloid section called Pillbox. News The news section contains the front page and 2-3 other pages of timely, campus-focused content covering events, accomplishments and disappointments of the student body including news analysis, personality profiles, investigative reporting, and trend reporting. Its regular features include columns from the student body president and the executive officer of The Tartan, featured photographs of campus events, and a weekly dose of topical statistics. Forum Forum is where Carnegie Mellon's campus discusses current issues. It contains letters to the editor, the ombudsman's column, op-ed pieces, and articles from the campus community. Science & Technology This section is relatively new to the newspaper. It covers the school's many achievements in the fields of robotics, computer science, biology, physics and other fields as well as coverage of speakers with technology or science backgrounds. Sports This section covers the weekly games, home and away of Carnegie Mellon's sports teams, including intramural ones. Its features include analysis of professional sports leagues, commentaries, and a schedule of upcoming games and events. Pillbox Pillbox is The Tartan's arts, living, and entertainment section. As an insert accompanying the broadsheet, it has its own comics editor in addition to a section editor. Pillbox covers the latest restaurant openings in the Oakland, Shadyside, and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods, on-campus concerts, dramatic performances, and organizations. It also contains music and movie reviews. Comics As a section of Pillbox, it has its own column about the comics industry in addition to a variety of syndicated and student-drawn comics. Staff The Tartan's staff consists of two major levels, the Editorial Staff and Regular Staff. Editorial Staff The Editorial Staff constitutes the core of The Tartan's contributers, making decisions about the articles, photographs, and art pieces submitted by the regular staff. The Editorial Staff is broken up into editors and managers. Editors deal directly with the assigning, production, and processing of content while managers coordinate their staffs to provide a service to the publication. Editorial Board The Editorial Board is a subsection of the Editorial Staff, charged with formulating and writing the opinion of the newspaper every week, resulting in two editorials for each issue. The Board is appointed by the Editor-in-Chief and approved by a majority vote of the Editorial Staff. Regular Staff When a student first joins the newspaper, he or she is considered a junior staffwriter. After contributing to 6 issues or having 2 published articles in two separate sections, they become a full staffwriter. After a year of regular contribution, the staffwriter is eligible to become a Senior Staffwriter. Recent Events A Brief Independence: 2002-2004 In 2002, The Tartan's leadership decided to leave the student funding process of Carnegie Mellon University. Brad Grantz, Editor-in-Chief at the time, believed that the newspaper needed to be independent so its mission could grow. Breaking away was also an attempt to remove the ethical burden of reporting on the same entities that fund the newspaper. The ill-planned move eventually led to an increase in the organization's debt and a souring of relations with the administration. The Tartan rejoined the student funding process in the spring of 2004 and started what will be a long road to financial solvency and a rebuilding of its relationship with the administration. Missing Website: 2004-Present In the spring of 2004, a disgruntled employee removed the code for The Tartan's website from its server. A theft report was filed with Campus Police, but due to ambiguous legal restrictions, the aftermath is unable to be disclosed. Since then, The Tartan has had to rebuild its internal and external websites from scratch. The Natrat: April 2004 The Tartan has traditionally published an annual April Fools joke issue called The Natrat (Tartan spelled backwards). In the 2004 edition, a comic containing highly offensive racist material was published, in addition to other offensive material. The ensuing media attention and campus outcry http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04095/295991.stm http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04098/297374.stm forced the editor-in-chief and the managing editor to resign after the editor-in-chief dismissed the artist from the staff. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04254/376625.stm Ad Refusal: November 2004 In November of 2004, The Tartan's editor-in-chief declined to run an advertisement submitted by conservative writer David Horowitz. Horowitz has gained publicity by placing or attempting to place similar ads in a number of student newspapers across the country. These ads, which many find offensive, caused the The Tartan to once again gain media attention, this time drawing fire from conservatives who viewed the paper as having a liberal agenda. http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/January2005/CMUnewspaperrejectsadtribunereview010505.htm http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/10507192.htm Note: The Horowitz ad has been a matter of controversy at the Tartan since at least 1994, perhaps earlier than that. Every year the ad gets submitted and the board at the time must make a decision on whether to run it or not. External link *The Tartan
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